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Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com)
Reader JoshTops shares a USA Today report: Bill Gates warned against denying climate change and pushed for more innovation in clean energy, during an event Friday at Columbia University in New York. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder joined friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett for a question-and-answer session with students. "Certain topics are so complicated like climate change that to really get a broad understanding is a bit difficult and particularly when people take that complexity and create uncertainty about it," Gates said. The planet needs to find reliable, cheap and clean energy, "the innovations there will be profound," Gates said. In December, Gates announced that he and a group of investors would invest more than $1 billion in Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund that aims to finance the development of affordable energy that will reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions.
. . . from Mr. "640K is all you'll ever need" (grin)
(and yes, I go back to DOS 2.x and Windows 1.x)
This particular quote was accepted by the world as fact for at least two, possibly three decades. And then all of a sudden, a few years ago, we were told it wasn't true anymore. I don't believe it. This is just whitewashing, an attempt to rewrite history so Gates didn't say something that wasn't even all that stupid in the context of the era in which it was said.
This is where we are today. The liberal rabid left in this country can't let the inauguration (or ANYTHING else for that matter) go. So much for the first 100 days where the media gives the new Pres a shot.
On the scale of exaggerations or lies they could tell - is THIS what we're arguing about for days afterward? They puffed up the size of their crowd? So what, let the guy say it was the greatest ever. It doesn't change anything, and it doesn't harm anyone. But here we are, arguing as if the country depends on the accurate depiction of the crowd size of Donald Trump's inauguration, or as if he is the first politician to exaggerate crowd size at one of their events. For a very recent example, see Hillary's entire campaign where they pretended she was filling stadiums when she was playing to half empty civic centers.