Bill Gates changes mind on Global Warming.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures, now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” in a stunning reversal.

Gates, 70, who has sunk billions of his vast fortune into initiatives ostensibly meant to combat global warming, penned a lengthy blog post this week urging a shift away from the “doomsday outlook” many climate activists have adopted to terrify nonbelievers into seeing things their way.

Democrats were ready to bankrupt the world over global warming.

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DogMan · 61-69, M

Astonishingly, Gates goes so far as to point out that cold — not heat — is a far greater threat to humanity, writing, “surprisingly, excessive cold is far deadlier, killing nearly ten times more people every year than heat does.”

He even noted some of the ways the obsessive focus on lowering greenhouse gas emissions has negatively impacted the very groups climate alarmists have warned would suffer most due to rising global temperatures.

This is true. The alarmists have kept poor countries from developing gas and coal power plants, that have
kept their countries from prospering and progressing into the future.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@DogMan I know, right? Because burning semi-fossilized wood seems like such an efficient way to power a country without hurting anyone.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@ItsMeMorgue Correct, so they won't freeze to death in the winter.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@DogMan Sorry. I reacted to the wrong BS statement. So, your position is that it's healthy and okay to breathe in some of the filthiest smoke humans have ever generated in order not to freeze to death?

DogMan · 61-69, M

@ItsMeMorgue
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
@DogMan Sorry. I reacted to the wrong BS statement. So, your position is that it's healthy and okay to breathe in some of the filthiest smoke humans have ever generated in order not to freeze to death?

So you are ok with not allowing CNG powered furnaces so people freeze to death? Would you rather have them
build little wood fires in their home?

You know some people believe we should kill off enough people, so that others may live. Are you in that camp?

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@DogMan I'm not going to respond to you if you're not going to answer my question. You're avoiding my question and throwing out a question that makes it sound like I'm in favor of murder. That's a dishonest tactic and I will not engage it.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@ItsMeMorgue I'm sorry, I forgot that I need to treat you special, and do everything I can to keep from
triggering you. No one mentioned Trump, but I see above that you brought your TDS out into the open.

I will refrain from using the T word, as I don't want to upset you.

I'm leaving the office now to head to Utah for a long weekend of riding, take care.

ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F

@DogMan

I'm sorry, I forgot that I need to treat you special, and do everything I can to keep from triggering you.

I didn't realize using common courtesy and honest debate tactics was "treating me special".

I'll ask it again, since your attention span seems to be tragically short.

Are you in favor of polluting the air with toxic particles that will eventually kill us just so that people won't be cold in the winter, when there are better ways of keeping people warm? Yes or no?

I will refrain from using the T word, as I don't want to upset you.

Who, the guy who keeps passing executive orders intended to erase the T in the LGBT, whom we all know is coming for the rest of us? That guy? No, the fact that you blatantly kiss his ring doesn't upset me.

ElwoodBlues · M

@DogMan says

Astonishingly, Gates goes so far as to point out that cold — not heat — is a far greater threat to humanity...

Your conclusions would only make sense if heat and cold were the only causes of death among humans. Since that's absolutely NOT the case, let's look at what actually kills humans.

#1 is heart disease; extremes of both heat and cold exacerbate heart disease; for example heat causes the heart to pump faster and harder to cool the body, while cold can constrict blood vessels raising blood pressure.

#2 is stroke, with the same heat and cold effects as #1.

#3 is lower respiratory infections. And that's where mosquitoes enter the conversation. The mosquito is far and away the world's deadliest animal due to the diseases it carries.

So how does global warming affect mosquito habitat and activity? It extends their geographic range and gives them better habitats due to increased average rainfall. And it extends their season because temps need to fall below 50°F to inhibit their activity.

In short, warming increases human deaths thru increased mosquito habitat and activity period.