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NBC’s Roker to Gates: How Can ‘Big Tech’ Shut Down ‘Climate Deniers’?
Newsbusters.org ^ | 2/18/2021 1125 hrs est | Kyle Drennan

Posted on 02/18/2021 10:32:28 AM PST by rktman

In a fawning interview with billionaire Bill Gates aired on Wednesday’s 3rd Hour Today show, co-host Al Roker hailed the Microsoft founder for launching a climate change crusade to “help save the planet.” A prominent left-wing climate activist in his own right, Roker was particularly concerned about “deniers” spreading “misinformation” and wondered if “big tech” could be used to silence them.

“Bill Gates is talking about saving the planet. Being emissions free in 30 years,” Roker heralded at the top of the segment. Turning to Gates, Roker fretted: “Plain and simple, if we don’t act now, what’s at stake here?” The How to Avoid a Climate Disaster author made sure to promote his new book by engaging in doomsday fearmongering:

The south of the United States will no longer be used for, you know, farming. It’ll have days that you can’t go outdoors. The sea level rise, the die off of the natural ecosystems. It gets quite extreme. So it’s almost apocalyptic, but that’s what’s at stake if you don’t start investing now in stopping the emissions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billgates; climate; climatechange; globalwarming; hitmen; roker
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To: Jolla

Currently in work.


21 posted on 02/18/2021 11:26:47 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: kearnyirish2

I’ve seen a half century of climate warnings fail to manifest.
Every year gets some slew of pundits claiming “what STRANGE weather we’re having” or predicting “weather disasters ahead soon!” Meh. Oceans have risen a foot, and temperatures a degree, in the last century. Hockey stick predictions keep being revised out or down.

Yeah, NOLA flooded - as was predicted annually for decades because, well, it’s freaking below sea level. Sure they’ll rationalize it to any blame they choose. Hard to fend off those who defend vested interests by tossing word salads.


22 posted on 02/18/2021 11:36:42 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: rktman

“In a fleeting moment of self-awareness, Roker played devil’s advocate: ‘What do you say to people when they say, well, who’s Bill Gates to tell me about a climate disaster?’ Gates confessed his climate sins: ‘I plead guilty to my large carbon footprint.’ However, he then suggested throwing money at the issue made it okay: ‘I’m paying over $7 million a year to do things that pull at that – those greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, so that I’m no longer at all a net emitter.’”

And how much of your net worth is $7M per year Mr. Gates? And what percentage of your annual income is that? What percentage of the average American’s net worth and income, in your lofty opinion, should go to mitigate this supposed manmade disaster? Would it be okay with you oh mighty Gates if those Americans first became independently wealthy before imposing draconian measures on them?

I believe Gate’s attack on black people through common core warrants reparations. ALL of his assets should be confiscated and distributed to those he’s harmed.


23 posted on 02/18/2021 11:39:49 AM PST by unlearner (Be ready for war.)
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To: rktman

It continues to stun me that the very business that makes its money off the first amendment wants to deny it to others.


24 posted on 02/18/2021 11:46:11 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: ctdonath2

The French Quarter lost power but didn’t flood - because it was built above sea level.

The people pushing this simply want to reduce the standard of living in the West to meet the rising standard of living in Asia (as more jobs go there); they want Westerners to give up the idea that they will own detached single-family homes or private automobiles, or have families. When weather/reality didn’t cooperate with “global warming”, they simply switched to “climate change” so they wouldn’t lose credibility so easily.

The last ice age (a mini ice age) occurred shortly before the French Revolution, and contributed to instability in Europe at the time (impacting harvests and fuel costs).


25 posted on 02/18/2021 11:46:15 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: rktman

Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

26 posted on 02/18/2021 11:49:22 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Roker needs to sober up.


27 posted on 02/18/2021 12:06:40 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: rktman; All
I learned a long time ago to never get into the long weeds when arguing climate change with liberals.

And I also learned this basic fact about the Left. The issue with the Left is never the real issue. The real issue is always their wet dream of a socialist revolution. The only “science” being utilized in the climate change argument is political science.

The global warming or climate change issue has never been about saving the planet or environmentalism or the levels of CO2 or temperature of the earth or any of the other myriad of arguments about the climate the Left uses. The climate is just a convenient vehicle or ruse they use to argue the subject to convince the stupid public of the need for economic system change.

Actually, the Left could care less about the climate. They only care about the power and big government control that socialism and communism will bring them.

t's easier to convince the public we need changes to protect the climate and the earth than it is to convince them of discarding capitalism in favor of socialism.

The Left's use of climate change is, and always has been, about the change of economic systems from capitalism, which is fueled by fossil fuels, to socialism (and eventually communism), which is controlled by big government. That is why they want to get rid of fossil fuels. Not to make the air cleaner or save the planet but it would destroy the capitalist, free-enterprise system and open the way for them to replace it with socialism.

They’ve reinvented it a little now and call it the Green New Deal and the brainchild is now AO-C, as Gore has been mocked persistently into background.

And if you look closely enough, you’ll see the same ruse being used with this corona virus “pandemic”. Substitute covid with climate change and you’ll see that the Left is using the virus for the same scam they’re using the climate for. Their playbook is getting real recognizable lately.


28 posted on 02/18/2021 12:19:20 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: IYAS9YAS

Seriously, what’s at stake here? The rapture of the church I think, you better get ready if you want to live in the new heavens and earth. Don’t miss it.


29 posted on 02/18/2021 12:27:30 PM PST by Cottonpatch
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To: Cottonpatch
Seriously, what’s at stake here? The rapture of the church I think, you better get ready if you want to live in the new heavens and earth. Don’t miss it.

Not sure how you go from my post on shutting down dissenting opinion being the tool of commies and fascists to your post on the Rapture.

30 posted on 02/18/2021 12:33:24 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rktman

Any one of those questions will have a leftie gnashing their teeth:)


31 posted on 02/18/2021 12:35:40 PM PST by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: rktman

Tell Houstonians it’s August and time to hit the beach in a bikini.


32 posted on 02/18/2021 12:49:19 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (American gun owners number more than the top 10 armies combined. What's Biden's enforcement plan?)
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To: IYAS9YAS

GATES: You’ve got to go to all those steel mills and change that process. You’ve got to go to all those cement plants, and that’s much harder than doing electric cars. So we need innovators to come along and change it.

So we deplorable’s get to live in mud huts?
Gates gets to continue to live in his 66,000sq/ft home. One of several he owns plus travel on the many jets he travels on.

Cement and steel is what builds modern civilization along with oil. These people are insane.


33 posted on 02/18/2021 1:16:35 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: All

The mistake may be that some assume that draconian changes loom in the future. What’s this COVID lockdown really all about? Who’s really behind it? What one person on earth has significant overlapping financial clout, strong beliefs about climate emergencies and the need for drastic change, medical supplies, computer programming skills, ties to China?

What one person? The one we’re watching here for his “future” actions. How about his past actions?


34 posted on 02/18/2021 1:18:15 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: rktman
fellow FReepers, please help me to dispute this article:

The scientific method and climate change: How scientists know

35 posted on 02/18/2021 1:29:12 PM PST by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: rktman

How can Big Citizens shut down Presstitution and Fake News??


36 posted on 02/18/2021 1:37:16 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: rktman

We don’t DENY CLIMATE. We deny that human activities have any measurable effect on it.

If all humans were gone tomorrow, nothing would change. The Earth would continue in its slightly irregular orbit of the Sun, with it small wobble. Temperatures would continue to rise and fall, ice sheets would advance and retreat and sea levels would rise and fall, as they have since the Creation.


37 posted on 02/18/2021 2:00:04 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rktman

Wonder if it tickled Bill when ol’ Al got his tongue all the way up in near Gates’ appendix?


38 posted on 02/18/2021 2:26:45 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: rktman

Free thought and exchange of ideas is soooooooooo old fashioned.
Now its all about we are right, and all dissenters will be prosecuted.


39 posted on 02/18/2021 2:52:49 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: rktman
Bill Gates is buying up farm land as fast as he can.

Between that and genetic therapy(mRNA), he is about to become a harbinger of death.

40 posted on 02/18/2021 4:19:15 PM PST by MAAG (Tetelestai, paid in full. You are as righteous as God is. Double jeopardy is forbidden.)
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