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When Bill Gates Yelled at Me About Climate Change

https://www.theframelab.org/when-bill-gates-yelled-at-me-about-climate-change/
7•doener•1h ago

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techblueberry•1h ago
Is this just all going to turn on a dime again in a Democrat administration, because that will be weird.
toomuchtodo•1h 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•1h 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•1h ago
What does that tell you about their motivations and incentives? Observe what someone does, not what they say.
melling•50m 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•24m 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.

Zeetah•49m ago
Dunning-Kruger effect?
jaggs•21m ago
It's not even the drowning. It's the harvests.
DrierCycle•18m ago
Mammals will have an extremely difficult time surviving another Eocene.

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