Timothy Birdnow

Oh my! The Gang Green just lost Bill Gates!

I guess separating from Melinda brought back some common sense to Mr. Gates.

Gates wrote this ahead of COP 30, the planning conference where Agenda 21 and 30 had been hatched at previous incarnations of the climate change auto-da-fe. While he clearly hasn't become one of us "deniers" he's clearly starting to wake up to the anti-humanism of the radical green agenda and fear of carbon emissions.

He joins Bjorn Lombarg, the environmentalist scientists and one of the founders of Greenpeace who has been cast out by the enviro movement for daring to say "well, there might be some warming but we need to look to help humans first".

He joins the 30,000 scientists who signed the Oregon Petition. He joins such big names as Dr. Roy Spencer, John Christy, William Happer, the late S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, Roger Pielke Sr. and Jr., Judith Curry, etc. He is in an august body despite the media claims no credible scientists disagree with the radical agenda of the IPCC and the many COP capers.

After warning that climate change charity is money largely being ill-spent he made the following points:

# Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization.”
# "Temperature is not the best way to measure our progress on climate.”
# "Health and prosperity are the best defense against climate change.”

He's especially right about that last (the Third World pollutes far more than do developed nations) and while the U.s. may put out the lion's share of co2, it's generally much cleaner co2 than that put out by the likes of China or India, which mix in unhealthy doses of sulphur and other actual pollutants.

When people are poor they don't worry about cleanliness as much. Making people rich and well-fed makes them cleaner.

Gates urges philanthropists to "to make a strategic pivot: prioritize the things that have the greatest impact on human welfare.”. That is exactly what they should have done all along.

In point of fact we actually ran an accidental experiment a few years ago that had some eye-opening results. During the pandemic economic activity dropped considerably and so did carbon emissions and yet atmospheric carbon dioxide continued to rise and we have seen no minor pause in that even now, despite the fact htat we are five years past the end of the pandemic. Poverty and starvation rose during the pandemic and yet with a reduction in economic activity we saw no reduction in the rate of growth of atmospheric co2.

This suggests that all the economic-busting regulations and restrictions sought by the Gang Green over the years probably has little to no impact on atmospheric co2, nor will they. But they have penty of impact on the poor.

If we care about the poor at all we will turn away from this green madness. Bill Gates may have learned that in his dotage but he seems to have finally figured it out. Now if he will stop his insane campaign to depopulate the planet...

At any rate where Mr. Gates leads others will surely follow. Defund the Gang Green and you defang them. This is a hopeful sign.

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