Gates and the other obscenely rich people play in a much different sandbox.

We are always just one major volcanic eruption away from another ice age.

Keith

Even major volcanic eruptions(tambora for example) could only halfway come close to the reductions they hope to accomplish and even then those effects are temporary. Of course those results would be devastating to the world population. And take more material into the atmosphere than humans are capable of doing save of carpet nuking every rainforest and most of the US.

The Climate has been changing for millions of years, and will continue to do so even though humans want it a comfortable 72 degrees. We are literally riding a twirling ball of molten rock thats beltching smoke and gas into our atmosphere. We got very lucky the sun don't fry us like ants under a magnifying glass. If you dont like heat move to the arctic. If you don't like the cold migrate to the south. Its that simple.

Can I get a Amen!

He’s still grudging from having his lunch money stolen in grade school.

AMEN

since we are the most adaptable organisms on the planet, this CANNOT be about saving *US*...it has to be about maintaining the status quo for other creatures.

so I ask you...why does Algore et al HATE/DENY Science? [evolution].

Because like all fraudsters they depend on maintaining the lie as long as they can so they can continue to make money or have power and so they'll try to persecute the "skeptics" as long as enough people still believe the lie.

Jesh, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Humanity has been building great "things" for a long, long time. This bunch is just our modern day version.
Same philosophy, different era.
Babel on Gates and company.
Babel on.


Blessings,
Mark

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive gas, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. A hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the Earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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“And we very well might be gone,” Hammond said, huffing.
“Yes,” Malcolm said. “We might.”
“So what are you saying? We shouldn’t care about the environment?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then what?”
Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. “Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”

Any attempts to "control" the environment has to confront the law of unintended consequences.... especially on the scale that might actually alter anything.

So....what happens if the atmosphere is "seeded" to lower tempertures and we then have a spate of large volcanic activity??....

Messing with the atmosphere didn't work out so well in Highlander II.

The climate is changing in my opinion and based on my anecdotal observations of 47 years. I don't know why. If it is manmade climate change, there are simpler ways to address it that (1) don't jack with the earth and (2) don't destroy the economy.

How do they know it won't act like a prism and INTENSIFY the heat from the sun !!!!

That's why climate change alarmism is more religious debate than science. You cannot test theories on climate change. You can get observational data easily but never can you actually test your theories. Even if we're possible to test the effects of seeding the atmosphere with any type of particles it would never be allowed. It would be like playing Russian roulette with a double barreled shotgun.

You got it. Like I have said before "Adapt or die."

Though he knows how to write code he is pretty much an idiot. Add to that, that he has absolutely no "walking around sense" he probably needs to be issued a Darwin award and removed from the gene pool.

People don’t need to fear climate change in the world as much as the world needs to fear the climate change in people.