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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.
Exactly.
'"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'.
Because when a topic is really, really complicated the most important thing is not to be uncertain about it.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The debate is over. There is no denying climate change. Climate change occurs all the time and has done so throughout history. There is plenty of scientific evidence to support that. We need to move onto the next topic which is: why is the climate change occurring and should we do anything about it? Let's assume for a moment that we think the majority of the climate change we're observing is due to burning fossil fuels. What do we do? If we suddenly all stopped burning fossil fuels, would the polar ice caps re-freeze into a state that would please the climate change alarmists who conveniently have a modus operandi? Doubtful.
And that right there is the problem I have with the liberal "the sky is falling" crowd. They'll bitch and moan and do it very loudly but never offer anything particularly useful or constructive to address whatever it is that they're complaining about. In true liberal fashion, they believe their work is done in raising the alarm bells and now it's someone else's problem to deal with. That's why I don't take them seriously because they don't take their own issues seriously. If they did, they would get off their posteriors and really do something about it. But in reality, most of them are arm chair alarmists. That's not particularly useful.
I suspect I'll get modded down by the left wingers on here not because there is anything wrong with what I've posted but merely because I've called them out of their closet and they don't like it. Hey, you want to improve your perception, get off your butt and do it then.
We'll make great pets
If your solution to the guy with the AK-47 is to ban guns, then you are in fact worse than the problem.
But I'm sure you won't see it...
Actually, the Left has being using "alternative facts" for well over a century. Notice the calls for everything to be subjective so everyone has their own set of facts and nothing is objective.
Look at the left allowing me to "self-identify" as a black, lesbian hispanic, caucasian, transgender male. The "facts" don't matter, everything is subjectively relative.
Just as these two posts above try to spin the "alternative facts" as some type of creation that it is not.