What Would We Do Without Tech Billionaires?

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Bill Gates will do for climate what Steve Jobs did for cancer;

Microsoft’s MSFT +0.5% billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of sun-dimming technology that would potentially reflect sunlight out of Earth’s atmosphere, triggering a global cooling effect. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), launched by Harvard University scientists, aims to examine this solution by spraying non-toxic calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere — a sun-reflecting aerosol that may offset the effects of global warming.
 
Widespread research into the efficacy of solar geoengineering has been stalled for years due to controversy. Opponents believe such science comes with unpredictable risks, including extreme shifts in weather patterns not dissimilar to warming trends we are already witnessing. Environmentalists similarly fear that a dramatic shift in mitigation strategy will be treated as a green light to continue emitting greenhouse gases with little to no changes in current consumption and production patterns.

60 Replies to “What Would We Do Without Tech Billionaires?”

  1. This is straight up Roger Moore-era Bond villian territory.

    It’s time to put an end to billionaires.

    2. The sun is going to do the cooling for him. We’re at the beginning of what could be a long and serious solar minimum.

  2. The poor geek wants desperately to make his mark somehow, but he keeps finding that anything other than digging wells and building schools is hugely disruptive.

  3. So, the problem is the sun? Based on my various Windows experiences, I don’t have a good feeling about this.

    1. OMG! Windows 10 for our atmosphere!? We’re all doomed.

      But anyone who doubts the “science” of this INSANE proposal … will be deplatformed and disappeared.

    2. Even really stupid people can become multi billionaires.

      There is no global warming …. there is weather.

      Now shut the fuck up about it all you stupid covidiot, climateers … AKA – gullible, leftist twats.

      Excuse my French ….

  6. To him the earth is like Windows. It needs constant help to keep working, and frequent reboots. Time for another registry hack….

  7. Yes. Because there couldn’t possibly be any unintended consequences of blotting out sunlight worldwide. Mass extinction, anyone? Then again, maybe that’s the real plan……moohahaha!

    1. No kidding! Didn’t this used to be called “Nuclear Winter”? And isn’t this how the giant asteroid killed off the dinosaurs?

      Those who erase their History (because it’s “the white mans” History, Right?) are doomed to repeat it.

  9. Perhaps we would be better of deploying Sodium Chloride fertilizer all over the farmland he has bought up, rather than spraying a chemical into the upper atmosphere to “reflect sunlight” when they don’t have a full understanding of the atmosphere and it’s workings….

  12. This is what happens when you specialize, become successful, and then wander outside your specialty. Bill Gates is a very smart guy, in a narrow band of endeavor. He clearly doesn’t understand the -climate- science enough to be able to tell when they’re bullsh1tting him.

    I’ve been hearing about this “change the albedo” thing for a very long time. Used to be in the 1970s it was climate cooling they were worried about, and they wanted to spread carbon black on the northern snow pack to heat things up. Now the fashion is for climate warming, so they want to make the atmosphere shinier to reflect heat away. I think I first read about it in SF from the 1940s.

    I can assert with pretty good confidence that there is no way in Hell these guys know what they’re doing. They want to try it and see what happens, just like the Trinity test of the atomic bomb.

    Something they don’t tell you about Trinity is the number of nuclear physicists at the time who were concerned the nuclear fission reaction, once started, wouldn’t stop. That the thing might reach a self-sustaining state and keep going, turning the Earth into another sun. Nobody proved it couldn’t happen before they lit that firecracker. They just went and did it anyway.

    1. The scientists working on the “gadget” (as it was nicknamed) didn’t even know how much the detonation would yield. They set up a betting pool to see whose guess came closest. I. I. Rabi won.

      After WW II, nuclear testing continued. The Americans conducted most of them in the South Pacific. One, named Castle Bravo, nearly went off the rails as its yield exceeded the estimate. Apparently, during the initial calculations, someone made an error, resulting in a theoretical value far below what was actually produced.

  13. Blotting out the sun will do wonders for solar panels.

    I’m beginning to feel like we are living in a Monty Python sketch, and I am waiting for Graham Chapman, dressed as the Colonel, to appear and declare it has become too silly.

  15. This sounds like so many scifi b-movies. We all know how it ends.

    IF there really was AGW we would be building nuclear reactors all over the planet. And it wouldn’t be 30 below right now.

  16. What is it with all these Leftist wanting to bring fiction to life. 1984, Animal Farm, Soylent Green, Clock Work Orange And now Snow Piercer. In the 60’s and early 70’s this same type of person wanted to spread Carbon on the Ice Caps and Glaciers to stop the next Ice Age. They didn’t need to do anything then they don’t need to do any thing now, this is just Globalist attempt at controlling the masses as if they were some kind of Noble.

    1. Yup.

      There is a Sci-Fi TV series called Snowpiercer.
      A movie was made too.
      Basically in them they sprayed the skies same as Gates wants to do.
      Temps dropped around the world within months to below -140 C killing everything .
      Went on for decades, only people alive were on a self-sufficient train called Snowpiercer that travelled on a loop around the world endlessly.
      Hoping the world would warm up again.

      So who says life can’t imitate fiction ?

  23. I’m in my eighties having had a wonderful life in what certainly qualifies as a golden age. Did my military service pre Vietnam, got in on the tail end of industrial America, married a wonderful woman, got to travel and live better than millionaires did in previous generations. As long as you young folks do it to yourselves I’ll be cheering you on.

  26. I can’t believe the tremendous hubris of this megalomaniac. Who the hell is he to decide what the climate on earth will be? By all means, let’s go back to the days cold, drought and crop failures.
    Brings to mind the movie “ Snowpiercer “.

  28. Back in the days before geo-synchronous communication satellites (yes, I am that old …) long distance communication was either by wire, or by sort-wave (SW) radio. Anyone that has ever used a SW radio knows that you are at the mercy of the different ionized layers in the atmosphere to bounce the signal, and those layers are in turn subject to the vagaries of time of day, sunspot cycles and just plain luck.

    The military, especially the US military, wanted a more reliable means of long distance communication. They came up with a plan to launch a few rockets carrying loads of copper needles, which they would release high in the atmosphere, or even just beyond, to form a “shell” of conductive copper needles around the earth. This would be permanent, and a much more reliable medium to bounce SW signals.

    Of course, it would also cut off the Earth from the rest of the universe, at least as far as radio signals were concerned. There would be no communication satellites, no communication during any trip to the moon, no remote exploration of Mars (or anything else).
    They couldn’t see and drawbacks, and this was the 20th Century, all that was to be known was known …

    Fortunately, the idea never got off the ground.

    1. More on that hare-brained copper needle scheme:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

      It was first proposed before Telstar went into orbit. One weakness in the plan was that, although it might have facilitated long-range communications, it could have also helped the Soviets with their over-the-horizon radar.

      Fortunately, it didn’t work as planned.

  29. History is littered with the devastation and suffering caused by the whims and fancies of sociopaths who were always sure they had all the answers.
    I make no exception for this weirdo billionaire and his gender ambiguous wife who inexplicably have inserted themselves into Covid/health debate and other global concerns.
    I know it’s all about the money but at least the Fords, Rockefellers and Rothschilds paid people to push their evil agendas only because they knew people would tire quickly from seeing their wrinkled mugs every day.

    1. If Bill has time to solve problems that don’t exist, he had time to figure out why his programmers still can’t get Windows to work as promised.

      Answer: Bill is cheap, and not nearly the genius his PR men want you to think he is, either in the tech department or the business department.

      If Microsoft had to hire Americans who spoke English and were able to write code that worked right the first time—and pay them an appropriate wage—Microsoft would either have gone out of business a long time ago or been forced to shitcan all the wives, girlfriends and rentboys of senior and middle management hired to do jobs well-written software could do easily for much less. So would most of Silicon Valley.

      I don’t expect Bill to admit any of this before his day in a Court whose Judge even he can’t buy off.

      The Judge might ask Bill to consider the example of Startup Nation.

      Israel has spent its entire existence on a war footing. Every adult Israeli is a soldier or veteran. The job has to get done, and done right. Unless you want another Holocaust, cockups are not an option.

  32. We’ve been told the sun has nothing to do with the so-called “warming” though. Sounds like Gates is a denier.

  34. On the upside, it’s pretty much impossible for any current technology to vent enough of this stuff into the atmosphere to make a difference.

  35. “Bill Gates will do for climate what Steve Jobs did for cancer;”

    Best line ever, I can’t remember laughing that loud. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

    ROFLMAO.

    The dog run out of my office to alarm wife that something is wrong with daddy.

    Still laughing.

  36. Gee,with the current solar minimum we need to fire some more matter into the furnace,get the sun cooking along better.
    Good place for Jobs and all the Cult of Calamitous Climate.
    One way tickets to the heart of the sun.
    Pink Floyd;”Set the controls..”
    And this will also solve the Retards other concern,Too Many People on earth…
    They can lead by example,instead of hectoring,nagging and scolding.

  38. Brilliant idea Bill, sell the sun rays to the highest bidder. Trudeau will be first in line.
    I guess the Tin Foil Hat guys had it right after all.

  39. But the end of next year Elon Musk will be launching giant rolls of flexible solar panels into space.

    They will unfurl and start producing power that will be beamed to earth by laser or microwave. All coal power plants will be obsolete.

    Every country squandering trillions on “green technology” will be laughed at.

    1. “Every country squandering trillions on “green technology” will be laughed at.”

      Squandering our Trillions.

      Bill Gates is going to Blackout China completely if he adds anything more to their permanent Carbon Smog daylight dimness.

  40. Anyone who artificially turns down the Canadian thermostat deserves to die an extremely long and horrible death.

    Trudeau is of course happy about this news. He will receive more of our money. Keep increasing the carbon tax and lowering the temperature.

  41. Oh, my, that subheadline, Kate!
    You seem to be channelling the dearly departed Kathy Shaidle.
    I am glad.

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