Posted on 10/16/2018 11:05:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Until recently, the consequences of climate change were thought to be so far into the future that many average people, including those who live in coastal zones, declared they neednt bother; theyd be long dead by the time catastrophe struck.
No more. Climate change is here, costing billions of dollars every year to recover from destructive events. Without adapting to that new reality, the world will confront rising costs of disasters that put economic growth, health, and in some places, even survival at risk.
To spur action, a coalition led by billionaire Bill Gates, former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva on Tuesday launched the Global Commission on Adaptation to lessen the damage.
We are at a moment of high risk and great promise, Gates said in a statement. We need policies to help vulnerable populations adapt and we need to ensure that governments ... are supporting innovation and helping deliver those breakthroughs to places that need them the most.
The commission will spend a year sorting out the best adaptation approaches and present a plan to the 2019 United Nations climate summit.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
will this nonsense ever stop?
well, it’s his money to waste LOL
What Bill should do is buy everyone in the world a beer.
Before Climate Changes takes away all our beers.
Headline: “Bill Gates launches effort to help the world adapt to climate change”
Like I tell my wife all the time “Please don’t help me.”
So, will Bill Gates fund moving ALL of New Orleans, people, homes and businesses to higher ground? Hmmmm?
Or, will he fund a 20foot sea-wall (and make France pay for it?)
If this is what having big money does to your brain, I will be happy to stay poor....
In other news...
Forget Global Warming: Winter is Coming and It Will Be a Doozy
July 16, 2018
For the last approximately 2.5 million years the Earth has been cycling in and out of long glacial periods, punctuated by much shorter warm interglacials. For the last one million-plus years the planet has been in 100,000-year cycles of ice advance and welcome warming.
The last ice age ended about 11,500 years ago, enabling humanity to prosper and advance.
Bad things happen during cold periods, very bad things. The most recent cold era is referred to as the Little Ice Age (1250-1850), and it brought severe hardship and death.
When is the next glacial advance expected? Interglacials typically last 10,000 to 12,000 years and we are now nearly 12,000 years into our current one. The authors of a detailed analysis of Antarctic ice cores reported that our current interglacial is by far, the longest stable warm period recorded in Antarctica during the past 420,000 years. So the next glacial advance and the accompanying true climate catastrophes may arrive in the next hundred or so years or we may be spared an icy apocalypse for more than a thousand years. However, it is coming.
Anything that includes the word ‘global’ also includes a load of bull schnitt.
“...launched the Global Commission on Adaptation to lessen the damage...”
Hey Bill, there’s a nice lake side home in the north woods of Wisconsin you can buy for me to escape the “global warming”.
If I was really worried about it and had a lot of cash, I’d check topographic maps and buy as much land as possible that would make the new coastline.
“...and in some places, even survival [is] at risk.”
All Oklahomans need to get out! Tornadoes!
All Wisconsinites need to get out! Blizzards!
All Californians need to get out! Forest Fires!
All people living by a lake, river, stream, ocean, puddle or drainage ditch needs to get out! Flooding!
All people living in the Mountains need to get out! Bears! Landslides!
All humans need to just kill themselves right now and be done with it! You’ll never make it out alive! ;)
We would have to live 10,000 times longer to see the Climate change ,does he have a magic potion ,LOL
I’d have a lot more respect for Mr. Gates if he just came out and admitted he wanted to wipe out 6.5 billion peasants.
Maybe that will offset the current, observed onset of the Mini Ice Age!!!!
... but I doubt it.
Is he going to buy everyone climate control space type suits with oxygen tanks?
Seeking power, they instill fear, using LIES!!
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