h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to Bill Gates, if we don’t mend our evil ways the equator will be uninhabitable, except when temperate regions will freeze, and forests and coral reefs will die.
Losing time against climate disaster
Juan Siliezar
Harvard Staff Writer
DATE February 24, 2021…
“There are points at which when the corals die off, they never come back,” Gates said. “This is acidifying the ocean, and all the aqua ecosystems die off as that acid level goes up. As forests dry out, they are subject to both fires and infestations that kill all the trees, so you get a lot less trees. As the sea level goes up, the beaches go away.”
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Without changes in global practices, “It’s going to be essentially unlivable at the Equator by the end of the century… [leading to] the instability of hundreds of millions of people trying to get out of those regions where a lot of the world’s population is, and particularly the poorest in the world,” he said.
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Read more: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/in-online-harvard-talk-bill-gates-warns-of-environmental-perils/
Poor Bill. For what its worth I think he really does care, but it seems like he is suffering in a hellish prison composed of his own ignorance.
Why do we know Bill is wrong about the corals dying and trees all burning away, and the equator becoming uninhabitably hot, if we release a little anthropogenic CO2?
Because none of this happened last time CO2 levels were slightly elevated.
Paleo-climatologists know that far from being abnormally warm, the world is currently enduring the Quaternary Glaciation, a period of unusual cold which started 2.58 million years ago. Only four other comparable cold ages have been identified in the entire paleo-climate record.
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What a deploarable man
Poor man, trying to earn a penny by promoting his book, no one wants to buy, Greta got free signed copy, else no sales.
Actually, personally he isn’t that bad, some 20 or more years ago I had opportunity to exchange couple of sentences, he was promoting a version of windows, appeared down to earth, unpretentious bloke.
Billionaires, actors, politicians, they all think their wealth / fame somehow endows them with wisdom superior to the hoi polloi.
Yes and unfortunately there status and the complicit msm gives them a stage from which to shout their message. Even skiving school children have been allowed on the stage. Climate realists have no such stage as a result we are losing the debate so badly most people don’t even know there is a debate. Fortunately the climate/weather is not playing ball.
In today’s world, virtue signaling is cheap insurance for the rich and famous. Can you imagine if Bill thumbed his nose at the global warming…climate change..I mean climate extinction crowd?
What debate? The BBC told me in no uncertain terms the science is settled and beyond question and they had no intention of stopping using the offensive label denier. I do not deny climate science or scientists any more than I deny the existence of untreated sewage.
It’s attention deficit syndrome. A common condition with actors and celebs that have not featured in MSM for a while.
He is bad.
His words prove it.
He is a greedy, self important cheat.
Unpretentious people do not pretend to knowledge when they are just repeating something someone else said, while acting like it is knowledge.
Any one who released Windows Vista can never be trusted.
This book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster is total billsh!t.
Hey, I’m a deplorable and I resent being compared to that wretched excuse for a human being!
Let him go – give him more rope – you go Bill – pass me the mashed dandelion and clover steak
It’s beautiful to see a great mind working and promoting things that everyone should be concerned about. And Bill Gates is not a great mind.
I think the DOG, has more working brain cells than the great Sir William Henry Gates III of Richmond next to it.
At least the dog has scruples, doesn’t steal other people’s property, minds its own business, poops where it is told to, and generally likes to live a bug free life.
They say pets resemble their owners, in this case it appears Gates doesn’t much resemble his pet.
They both have the same addled-mind vacant stare. !
I think the dog’s expression screams, “Help me! I’m owned by a mad man.”
We’ve added all these new (climate) features in Word and Excel that you did not ask for, while not listening to any of your complaints about what continues to cause problems for your work and efficiency. Here is your bill for the upgrade.
So many bugs in EXCEL from the beginning, working with calender dates starting in 19th century, or calculating with hours and minutes without several special settings is an adventure no other spreadsheet program knows.
And that guy eill explain us the world ?
NEVA EVA.
What’s WORD and EXCEL? – oh right those programs I used to use, bought new MacBook Air in Nov. and did not buy more Microsoft product. I’m finding PAGES to be fine, haven’t tried spreadsheet yet but no longer need to anyway.
I used Quattro Pro for a few years in the early 90s and was quite impressed with it.
Yes that was fine and if here is still one remembering Geoworks Ensemble, Quattro Prp couldt be run within.
Word Perfect was much the best though. It died the death because it was not WYSIWYG, but at least it produced my PhD thesis correctly, the index and cross-reference features were superb, Word didn’t even have them, but Word Perfect was written for Lawyers, etc. so had to. A legal case with no references to the evidence, now there’s a new idea! It also worked just fine with 400 pages of text, on a 286 computer with 640k of RAM!
Download Open Office.Or better yet use Linux and Libre Office.
I never forgave him for Clippy
Really? What about ME, Vista, …. I really “liked” him when he was getting pies to his face.
Vista was after Bill Gates left. But, truth be told, I would much rather have ME or Vista than the abomination of Windows 10. It is easily the worst Windows ever made. Windows 8 is a distant second, and ME is a distant third from 8. If this were a race, Windows 10 would win by 10 track lengths over Windows 10 and 1000 track lengths over Windows ME.
Microsoft still employed quality control people for ME; the new CEO thinks we should be the quality control people so that they can be “agile”, his words. You could control which updates you installed with ME, and the updates told you exactly what it did; neither of those applies with Windows 10. Microsoft didn’t have an app store that they shove down your throat with ME. Microsoft had a logical user interface with ME. Microsoft didn’t have creepy telemetry with ME. Microsoft didn’t almost demand your email with ME. So, while ME crashed every other second, it still was far and away superior to Windows 10.
And Windows 7 was the absolute best operating system Microsoft ever made. Including the server ones.
Win 7 best and the only I ever bought, and second the older XP
I still use XP. It works fine, except it uses Flashplayer for videos, and Flashplayer has been retired, so I can’t view any videos on XP now.
I think there is a workaround, but haven’t looked into it.
I have a windows 8 computer that still works just fine.
Use VLC media player, works fine for nearly all video types.
I run Win 7 on a virtual machine on my Macbook Pro. And having been in the game since the first desktop computer, I’ll give the latest Mac OS Big Sur the best marks.
Hi, I notice you want to pontificate about the climate. Do you need help with that?
Clippy was the son of Bob, which was Melinda’s idea and we know what that led to…
Remember Bob?
Linux all the way LibreOffice Convert now you will see the light
And another thing….
Mr. Gates, your jet is waiting.
“As the sea level goes up, the beaches go away.”
The sea level went 130 m up in the last 13,000 years. There are no beaches.
Question, layman here…
no matter where the shore is, why wouldn’t there be beaches?
Of course there are always beaches where the land meets the sea.
Except where there are mangroves marshes, or some other such thing, instead.
You shoulda seen the beaches 13,000 years ago – miles upon miles of pure white sand as far as the eye could see! It took a good month for the tide to come in, and another to go back out again. And not a condo anywhere to spoil the view!
But those Paleolithic off-shore wind farms were an eye sore.
Poor Bill……well, maybe not so poor! But seriously, how can a guy who’s supposedly so smart and with access to so much information believe such utter nonsense?
I really struggle to understand how anybody, faced with the vast amounts of data that contradict the “climate emergency” narrative could come to such bizarre conclusions.
And I know we can say, “follow the money” but he clearly doesn’t need any. Is it just a need to stay relevant or indulge in “social engineering”, perhaps?
It’s never about money, it’s always about control. After control all else follows.
In this case, I think it’s more likely empty nest syndrome, since he no longer has thousands of employees to control.
If he said that he now believed the contradictory data he would be seen as changing his mind and he can’t lose that much “face”.
He can believe it because it does not cost him or his family anything to believe it. His life style and those of his great grandchildren will not be changed by any laws or regulations that he thinks should be imposed. That level of wealth means you will always get whatever you want. There are no sacrifices for Gates and his family or even by most of those he spends his time with – only by the rest of us.
If Gates hadn’t spent two years playing video games before dropping out of Harvard he might have learned something useful. Obviously he’s very poorly educated in science.
He has the opposite of an education in science.
He believes things for which there is not only no evidence, but for which there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
He is now an antiscientist.
Majored in junk science!
Bill knows how to work the money and sell WEF agenda.
He has a stake in green energy and -building- wind farms for the subsidies. He is largest USA farm land owner and is selling B’ef plant based protein. He has a stake in wuhan lab and vaccine development, manufacture, and distribution. He has a stake in Microsoft Teams which was heavily used because of lockdown. Online schooling is similar and aligns with stake in school assessment testing company.
“But seriously, how can a guy who’s supposedly so smart and with access to so much information believe such utter nonsense?”
Maybe it’s his wife’s influence. Plus maybe he’s trying to soften his evil-empire image.
“…and all the aqua ecosystems die off as that acid level goes up.”
OMG – the stupid, it burns like HCl.
Agreed……that’s particularly high on the “ridiculosity scale”
The trees and coral die anyway, its what they do. Mr Gates should learn about the carbon cycle where the quantities dwarf what humans can do.
It is sad to see dementia set in so early. I am sure he is very concerned about our Carbon Footprints while he lives in mansions and yachts and goes jetting around the world.
E D maybe?
E D? You mean Environmental Delusions? He definitely suffers from that! Any other version is way more information than I need!
This from the guy that thought 640kb RAM ought to be enough for everybody. You were short-sighted then, and nothing has changed.
For that, 320 for you.
Actually hes was right, I cant believe I use 8GB- very inefficently- for this little machine Im using now. The previous one regularly used 25% of the 8GB, now its 40% and it was a clean swap of the old SSD into this one, a barebones box I configured myself. Of course it doesnt matter anymore
Run AutoCAD and a complex systems simulator. 32 Gb will feel cramped.
This is your brain on main stream media.
Why people listen to wealthy people, movie stars, sports figures, or anyone given media attention for something other than their expertise is beyond me. Does the MSM really believe we’re that vapid or ….. are we?
I work for a tech company and most of my co-workers hang on every word of Elon Musk as if it is eternal truth. It’s creepy, to say the least.
That’s that cult effect that someone commented about yesterday.
Creepy is certainly what it is.
TSLA closed at $675 today, down from its high of around $895 month ago—that’s approaching 25%. Maybe a 50% drop, to $450, will make his acolytes less trusting. Such a drop is likely within six months, I believe. If that drop doesn’t wobble their faith, another 50-percenter, due after 12 more months, should do it.
They do not. His book is doing very poorly.
His dementia seems to be worse than Joe Biden’s problem. According to the Weather Channel, the Arctic heating is causing colder weather. Than means, moving forward, the equator will be un-inhabitabl because it will become a frozen wasteland — and the Arctic will become very inhabitable, especially Greenland.
Whenever anyone asks who my doctor is, I always say Dr. Bill Gates. He has a prescription for everything that ailes us.
He really believes all the porkies he has been told. How sad.
He doesn’t have the mental activity to tell the difference !
A classic case of ACDS, including all the rank hypocrisy that goes with it.
Go buy yourself some climate offsets, you hypocrite. You’ll feel better in the morning.
He does !
and that just shows what a follower of useless gestures Gates and everyone else that buys these religious ‘indulgences’ is.
I’m hoping we will soon see the return of self-flagellation among the REAL science deniers! Wouldn’t it be fun to cheer on groups like XR as they prance about ripping the flesh on their backs to shreds?
Too much? I still yearn for the return of stocks as a worthy treatment for those who think they can change their gender, and dueling for settling political differences! Ah, the good old days!
Apparently being reasonably intelligent or successful does not preclude being delusional!
An example as Thomas Sowell has said of somebody with knowledge in very narrow area assuming they have equal knowledge in other areas in which they have little or no knowledge but think they do.
Not always. I have a degree in vacuum physics. I know everything about nothing.
Mr. Blue Screen of Death is applying his quality insights to climate? Good luck with that!
It’s the microscope malady, a common affliction among experts, analysts and the self important.
Making little things seem much bigger than they are means knowing more and more about less and less until eventually they know everything about nothing.
Dazzled by their own brilliance the afflicted soon become blind to everything else.
Cheers
Mike
Maybe, Bill wants us to think that he is no more harmless than the Prince of Wales. Gates is sly like a fox. He knows how to do harm. He is a market colonist and empire builder of the highest order. I don’t think he is done yet. His world is not strawberry fields for ever… it divide and conquer. I am sure that he is aware that his chicken little panacea is disarming pabulum. Gotta know all his swords are out.
Next carboard sign….
Out to lunch
He probably has lunch flown in by helicopter. So he can still be “environmentally friendly” and work from home.
We just recently learned that the world is greening, the Sahara has shrunk by 700,000 sq. kilometers in the last 20 years. If Bill is right, shouldn’t the opposite be happening? Somebody please clue him in.
Facts are secondary to “settled science” computer models, don’t you know? This is a post-facts world. Get woke!
“…where a lot of the world’s population is, and particularly the poorest in the world,…”
How exactly do you define poverty? Cell phone, TV and refrigerator, with existential dread every day you wake up wondering what dreck your children will eat today, or a guy sleeping on a grass mat in a grass hut with ten cows outside, and a variey of fresh greens from the bush. So, sometimes there’s drought, and you have to slaughter most of your cattle, and eat tree leaves for seven months, how is that different from being retrenched six days before Christmas and sleeping in your car, or blowing your entire life savings on cancer treatment because you ate the GMO dreck Baal Gates insists you eat?
In the tropics, ambition is different than in New York, stuff your evaluations on poverty, you pathetic wage slaves!
Just sayin’…
I think you’ll find even in the poorest countries they’ve got cable TV, and a pretty fair idea of how much they’re missing out on. Why do you think the USA has such a problem with illegal immigration?
“…a pretty fair idea of how much they’re missing out on…”
Because they have television showing them the desirable women dressed 24/7 in evening wear and perfect makeup living like queens even if they have no jobs? Every man has a shiny car and a gun that never runs out of bullets, and every child has so much free food lying around, they get distracted by the slightest thing, and then (and I cannot stress this enough) they literally just throw whatever food they have in their hand, casually over their shoulder! Sure beats working for a living, don’t you think? We hardly never see poor people on TV, unless it is part of the plot, and they either traffic drugs, or suddenly become famous.
Do not underestimate the culturally destructive and morally degenerative power of Hollywood. Magic is real, and repeating primal-desire(?) queues is a powerful incantation…
But it still does not address the issue of who defines poverty on what grounds. I maintain, occasional hunger beats eating poisonous dreck every single day of your life until you die a painful cancerous death.
There is a midway between the two extremes, but the money is not on the side of finding that balance. It would spoil the fun of “rule the nations with an iron rod”?
The rich retired guy has spoken!
I only bought one Windows machine…been using Linux since…mostly Linux Mint now. I want Billy to go all in and predict we are going to reach unstoppable feedback – Venus runaway style…just do it Dr. Bill.
In earlier Times, I was a fan of OS/2 Warp as it came out. Geoworks worked fine there, and I used the GeoWorks Desktop as OS/2WPS. The GeoWorks suite was internal a preemptive multitasking sytem in contrast to the old Windows systems only beeing multithreadting.
In so far Geos and OS/2 did harmonise very well. (info still available ! I wonder that was 1995 !)
GeoWorks and IBM Dos or DR-Dos, because worked well together as multithreating combo, MS-Dos was a fail for that 😀
MS-DOS ? What should I do with it ?
That I wrote 1995 in an other article about GEOS/2 😀
Windows will crash long long before coral and trees.
Bill, what you are doing is wrong.
Keep up, Jeff – that’s been happening regularly since oh,1988.
But the good news is – Bill and his millions of users have been able to adapt to these changing events as they went along.
So adapting to climate change should be a walk in the park, hey?