re: Worlds richest man donates $10B to... Climate Change

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You’re right but the writing is in the wall that we have greatly exacerbated the speed which is the whole problem.

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No, there’s not. That hockey stick graph has been proven false. The recorded temperatures have been manipulated, filtered, and altered to get more grant money from governments and taxes.

Your post earlier about not wanting to trash the world is spot on. We shouldn’t trash the world, but don’t tell me a substance that is literal plant building blocks and food is what’s causing it even when its greenhouse gas ability is dwarfed by other chemicals and possibly over stated to begin with.

Let’s talk actual pollution of the trashy mother fricker throwing the 7/11 big gulp out the window. Or the rivers in Vietnam so polluted locals cannot drink them due to manufacturing literally dumping their waste into them.

Or the fact that over 50% of foreign seafood tested fails inspection at US customs due to pollutants such as metals and organic chemicals. Good thing they only check 10% of shipments.

We can have legitimate discussion on taking car elf the planet and reducing pollution. We can make actual improvements on it right here, right now, in the US. But don’t try and tell me the government needs to regulate and stifle manufacturing, production, fossil fuels production/usage here in the US and us not don jack shite about China, India, and the entire SE Asian region.

He must be planning on running for President or something


No other reason to piss away 10 billion like that

When things are the same in 20 years, Jeff will be hailed as a hero for saving earth.

I never said my opinion wasn’t. I acknowledge I work in the oil industry. As for am I a biologist, not in the sense that I teach biology classes or measure the populations of ridge back spotted tadpoles, but my work is 70% biology and 30% chemistry from a technical stand point.

But nothing I brought here is opinion so who gives a crap what my bias is? Do you agree or disagree with my posts addressing real pollution problems that can actually be fixed?

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Many of the world's most at-risk agricultural areas (e.g., Africa and coastal regions) will be severely challenged by climate change, which will lead to even greater rates of food insecurity and, ultimately high rates of climate migration. DOD didn't call climate change a national security issue for no reason. 

I know better than to read climate threads on TD, but it is a good gauge of the intellectual capacity and issue awareness of many posters.

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at-risk agricultural areas

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severely challenged by climate change,

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food insecurity 

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climate migration

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climate change a national security issue 

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intellectual capacity and issue awareness

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Did anybody else get BINGO on their climate change buzzword and catchphrase cards? I win!

Is this the thing where we restrict the heck out of American companies and turn a blind eye to China who makes everything?

It’s all about making a new revenue stream called “carbon credits”.

This is global warming, but when the earth didn’t get warmer they had to re-label it.

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China doesn't give two fricks about the environment. They just pander to people like you who take what people (and governments) say at face value.

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They care about money and realize the future lies in green tech and renewable energy so they are wisely positioning themselves to be the front runner in that. The US could be but we have too many people taking some sort of political offense to the idea that humans can have an effect on the planet.

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They care about money and realize the future lies in green tech and renewable energy so they are wisely positioning themselves to be the front runner in that.

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No, they're positioning themselves to exploit the west's idiotic belief that solar and wind energies can power a stable grid. They're not doing it for their own country. Again, you are naive.

We have the ability to create plenty of green energy right now in this country, but the "environmentalists" want nothing to do with it.

sure it does but how much of an impact. I need hard evidence and not muh feelings

0.1%? 1%? 99%? it makes a difference