Posts Tagged ‘environment’

by Claude Sandroff, American Thinker, February 18, 2010

If giving away a multibillion-dollar fortune is hard work, Bill Gates has been slaving away since he relinquished active management of Microsoft Corporation in 2008. Perhaps the most loathed technology executive of the P.C. era, he now bottle-feeds African babies and champions touchy-feely models of capitalism as he yearns to become the world’s most beloved philanthropist.

–SNIP– At the TED 2010 conference in Long Beach, California, Bill Gates won a standing ovation by calling for the end of carbon-based fuels in forty years; literally, our CO2 emissions must drop to zero or we risk a warming world, lower crop yields, and starvation of the poor. It is absolutely stunning, as we read Gates’s excerpts, to accept that a formerly unrelenting strategic genius has transformed himself into a conveyor of hackneyed global warming alarmism.

According to Gates, “There is uncertainty about how bad the effects of increases in atmospheric CO2 are, but they will be bad. Until we get to near zero, the temperature will go up.”

Does Bill Gates not know how shaky the foundations of anthropogenic global warming science have become?

Read more at http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/bill_gates_environmental_kook.html

CNN: “Gates said the deadline for the world to cut all of its carbon emissions is 2050.”

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! “The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.” Video at http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

by MacIver Institute on October 9, 2009

Former Vice President Al Gore addressed the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday, October 9, 2009. A question and answer period followed the brief address. However, the former Vice President of the United States was not in the mood to answer any questions from skeptics of global warming. His appearance was highly scripted, and when one filmmaker dared ask a tough question…well, just watch this report.

From http://maciverinstitute.com/2009/10/daring-to-question-al-gore.html

Posted by Declan McCullagh, Sept. 15, 2009
The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent.

A previously unreleased analysis prepared by the U.S. Department of Treasury says the total in new taxes would be between $100 billion to $200 billion a year. At the upper end of the administration’s estimate, the cost per American household would be an extra $1,761 a year.

A second memorandum, which was prepared for Obama’s transition team after the November election, says this about climate change policies: “Economic costs will likely be on the order of 1 percent of GDP, making them equal in scale to all existing environmental regulation.”

READ MORE AT http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml