When Bill Gates Yelled at Me About Climate Change

https://www.theframelab.org/when-bill-gates-yelled-at-me-about-climate-change/

11•doener•2mo ago

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techblueberry•2mo ago

Is this just all going to turn on a dime again in a Democrat administration, because that will be weird.

toomuchtodo•2mo ago

Yes, and by then, China’s export engine for cleantech will be at full speed. This is an annoying pause.

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...

techblueberry•2mo ago

One of the weirdest things is to see very serious growth-oriented capitalists in the US argue about the “solution to our economic problems”. Re: coal vs gas vs fossil fuels vs clean energy, and China just fucking full steam ahead on all the things.

toomuchtodo•2mo ago

What does that tell you about their motivations and incentives? Observe what someone does, not what they say.

melling•2mo ago

““The Weather Channel! You get your information from the Weather Channel!” Now Gates was beet red, mocking and gesticulating even more. Heads were turning as people watched this spectacle in the hallway. “You should meet a real climate scientist,” he said while pointing to physicist David Keith, then with the University of Calgary, later with Harvard and the University of Chicago.”

Gates was right.

Anyway, we need to start being more specific about what climate changes are happening and when.

Net Zero was scheduled for 2050. Always seemed unlikely.

Yet the far right screams alarmists every time a wind turbine goes up.

The far left screams we’ll all be dead if we don’t react by 2030.

All the news headlines have politically polarized solving the problem.

doener•2mo ago

You left out the most important part:

“Yes, we’ve been trying to help Bill understand this isn’t just about the tropics,” Keith explained.

Tarsul•2mo ago

But the crazy part is that on a spectrum from far left to far right, the far left was never more correct than on climate change. By which I mean it truly is catastrophic/worldchanging or in a little more words: the worst legacy a generation ever left behind for future generations. And why? Because we are addicted to fossil fuels. Climate change happens more because of wants [of the rich world] than because of needs [of everyone]. We burn our future for our current desires.

Zeetah•2mo ago

Dunning-Kruger effect?

jaggs•2mo ago

It's not even the drowning. It's the harvests.

DrierCycle•2mo ago

Mammals will have an extremely difficult time surviving another Eocene.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64241-0

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