Self-proclaimed tech, global health, vaccine, and climate change guru, Bill Gates, just did a total 180. Yes, you heard that right. The same Bill Gates who has been pushing ridiculous doomsday theories for twenty years on how climate change will end humanity as we know it, recently published a lengthy letter on his website encouraging everyone to forget the whole thing. The letter’s title, Three tough truths about climate (sic) argues that too many resources are being used to get to net zero (carbon emissions) and should go to “improving lives.”
Gates’ three tough “truths” are as follows:
- 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.
So apparently, Gates fancies himself the new Nostradamus, and he alone knows exactly when and how civilization will end. This man’s ego knows no bounds, but thanks for telling us what sane people already instinctively knew.
He also tells us that temperature is not a reliable way to monitor the death of the planet. This actually makes perfect sense as the Earth has sustained dramatic shifts in temperature, including five ice ages and eleven interglacials (warm periods) over the last 800,000 years. These intense swings have occurred despite humans not producing greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. Somehow, life on Earth has been sustained in these extremes without any human intervention.
Environmental activists have been hyping how dangerous the global warming narrative is, but data show that the cold kills 15 times more people than heat. If these people were honest (and they are not), they would be more concerned with preventing the next ice age and would actually embrace the current warming trends.
Then Gates goes all quasi-capitalist on us, saying that improving lives will mitigate the effects of climate change. Apparently, providing furnaces and air conditioners to poor people will help them effectively cope with the weather. What a genius!
His letter coincidentally comes when the talk of AI (artificial intelligence) has been ramping up. A few years ago, Scientific America wrote an article stating that, “1.5 million [AI] servers, running at full capacity, would consume at least 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually–more than what many small countries use in year.”
Oops! Seems like the tech bros are going to need an awful lot of fossil fuels and coal-powered plants to power their precious servers. Bill Gates and his global tech friends know that these demands cannot be met with wind and solar power so they are now trying to backpedal on the entire climate change narrative.
These global power brokers are truly despicable. They have influenced and, quite frankly, frightened an entire generation of young people into not getting married and having children, sacrificing their own happiness, and living as though the world was going to end in the next 30 years. It is long past time that we stop listening to the likes of creepy Bill Gates and his ilk.