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Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, ‘The Private Sector is Inept’Gates even tacked to the left and uttered words that few other billionaire investors would dare to say: government R&D is far more effective and efficient than anything the private sector could do.“Since World War II, U.S.-government R&D has defined the state of the art in almost every area,” Gates said. “The private sector is in general inept.”“When I first got into this I thought, ‘How well does the Department of Energy spend its R&D budget?’ And I was worried: ‘Gosh, if I’m going to be saying it should double its budget, if it turns out it’s not very well spent, how am I going to feel about that?'” Gates told The Atlantic. “But as I’ve really dug into it, the DARPA money is very well spent, and the basic-science money is very well spent. The government has these ‘Centers of Excellence.’ They should have twice as many of those things, and those things should get about four times as much money as they do.”In making his case for public sector excellence, the Microsoft founder mentioned the success of the internet: “In the case of the digital technologies, the path back to government R&D is a bit more complex, because nowadays most of the R&D has moved to the private sector. But the original Internet comes from the government, the original chip-foundry stuff comes from the government—and even today there’s some government money taking on some of the more advanced things and making sure the universities have the knowledge base that maintains that lead. So I’d say the overall record for the United States on government R&D is very, very good.”The ‘Centers for Excellence’ program Bill Gates mentioned is the Center for Excellence in Renewable Energy (CERE), which is funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF, which operated with roughly $7.1 billion in 2014, is the source of one-fourth of federal funding for research projects at over 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 schools, nonprofits, and businesses. The NSF has even funded research by over 200 Nobel laureates, including 26 in just the last 5 years alone. The NSF receives more than 40,000 proposals each year, but only gets to fund about 11,000 of them. Bill Gates wants this funding to be dramatically increased.“I would love to see a tripling, to $18 billion a year from the U.S. government to fund basic research alone,” Gates said. “Now, as a percentage of the government budget, that’s not gigantic… This is not an unachievable amount of money.”As evidence around the world shows, the U.S. doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel to be a green energy juggernaut — it can simply look to currently-existing examples in countries with socialist policies — like Germany and China, for instance — on how to become a leader in green energy. And according to Bill Gates, the rest of the world will follow the lead if the biggest countries set the bar.“The climate problem has to be solved in the rich countries,” Gates said. “China and the U.S. and Europe have to solve CO2 emissions, and when they do, hopefully they’ll make it cheap enough for everyone else.”This past July, Germany set a new record by generating 78 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, beating its previous record of 74 percent in May of 2014. Germany generated 40.65 gigawatts from wind and solar energy, 4.85 gigawatts from biomass, and 2.4 gigawatts from hydropower, for a total of 47.9 gigawatts of green energy when total electricity demand was at 61.1 gigawatts. Over the past year, Germany decreased its CO2 output by 4.3 percent. This means greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are at their lowest point since 1990.But in terms of raw investment, China’s $80 billion green energy investment is more than both the U.S. ($34 billion) and Europe ($46 billion), combined. And those investments are already paying dividends. While coal is still China’s biggest source of electricity, the world’s biggest polluter aims to have its use of fossil fuels peak in 2030, and trend downward after that. Additionally, China’s solar production outpaces all other countries combined.Between 2000 and 2012, China’s solar energy output increased dramatically from 3 megawatts to 21,000 megawatts. And its solar output increased by 67 percent between 2013 and 2014 alone. In 2014, China actually managed to decrease its CO2 emissions by 1 percent, with further reductions expected in the coming years.China also powers more homes with wind energy than every nuclear power plant in the U.S. put together. China’s wind output provided electricity to 110 million homes in 2014, as its wind farms generated 16 percent more power than in 2013, and 77 gigawatts of additional wind power are currently under construction. China’s energy grid is currently powered by 100 gigawatts of green energy, and aims to double green energy output to 200 gigawatts by 2020.Bill Gates wants the U.S. to be an additional green energy leader, and expresses hope that there may still be enough time for the U.S. to take green energy investment seriously, and that the public sector can be instrumental in preventing a 2-degree increase in global temperatures.“I don’t think it’s hopeless, because it’s about American innovation, American jobs, American leadership, and there are examples where this has gone very, very well,” Gates said.
Bueno, en principio no hay incompatibilidad entre ser liberal y señalar que el mercado o la iniciativa privada es inepta en algo.Eso está en la literatura liberal más antigua.
"El único motivo que determina al poseedor de un capital a utilizarlo, de preferencia en la agricultura, o en la manufactura o en un ramo específico del comercio al por mayor o por menor es la consideración de su propio beneficio. Jamás se le viene a las mientes calcular cuánto trabajo productivo pone en actividad cada uno de estos modos de empleo (V) qué valor añadirá al producto anual de las tierras y del trabajo de su país (Smith, t. II, páginas 400—401)."
NASA has actually admitted that there may be a link between the solar climate and the earth climate. “[In] recent years, researchers have considered the possibility that the sun plays a role in global warming. After all, the sun is the main source of heat for our planet,” Nasa confirmed. Despite the constant stories of how recent years have been the hottest, historically, NASA has estimated that four of the 10 hottest years in the U.S. were actually during the 1930s, with 1934 the hottest of all. This was the Dust Bowl; the combination of vast dust storms created by drought and hot weather.The branch of research looking at the ice core samples to document climate for thousands of years has established the major solar cycle of about 300 years. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), which has the ice core data back 800,000 years, is being shut down as of September 2017 (800,000-year Ice-Core Records of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2)).The data clearly establishes that there has always been a cycle to CO2 long before man’s industrial age. This is data government wants to hide. As along as they can pretend CO2 has never risen in the past before 1950, then they can tax the air and pretend it’s to prevent climate change. Moreover, while we can clean the air with regulation as we have done, under global warming, they allow “credits” to pollute as long as you pay the government. It is the ultimate scam where they get to tax pollution and people cheer rather than clean up anything.NASA has reported: “Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion. (Note: Penn and Livingston were not participants at the NRC workshop.)If the sun really is entering an unfamiliar phase of the solar cycle, then we must redouble our efforts to understand the sun-climate link…”Additionally, the pretense of global warming prevents us from preparing for a sharp decline in cold weather that will be dangerous to society to say the least. This winter is colder than last year and last year was colder than the previous. It has snowed in Japan down to Athens. Even Corsica where winter highs are typically in the mid-50s, lows around 40, saw snow. We need to pay attention to Climate Change but stop blaming man. Something far more significant is developing and handing academics $100 billion to prove global warming is an absolute joke.The Dust Bowl wiped out agriculture and sent unemployment to 25% during the Great Depression. Climate Change forced Americans off the farm and into skilled labor. Agriculture accounted for 70% in 1850 of all employment. We MUST stop this nonsense and begin an unbiased look at the changes and what are the ramifications going forward. This 1922 post in the Monthly Weather Review warned of a warming trend back then, but it only reflected one cycle move. It got much warming into the 1930s (source NOAA.GOV).
Me parece irrefutable, desde el irrespirable Pekín, hasta la boina madrileña por el NOX del diesel, que así no podemos seguir.
Cita de: JENOFONTE10 en Enero 21, 2017, 11:27:32 amMe parece irrefutable, desde el irrespirable Pekín, hasta la boina madrileña por el NOX del diesel, que así no podemos seguir.¿Y si te digo que la boina de NOX del diesel es en parte culpa de los "luchadores" del cambio climatico?En Europa se incentivo el uso del motor diesel porque emite menos CO2 por energía consumida, pero se paso por alto el hecho de que contamina mucho más que un motor de gasolina. Mientras tanto esos irresponsables negacionistas de EEUU tirando de gasolina y con una aire más limpio en sus ciudades.
[...]deben reprimirse los intereses particulares que se lucran contaminando, bajo el principio de ética fiscal de:- 'quien contamina paga',Por eso apoyo los impuestos al tabaco o al carbono. No su prohibición.[...]
Mantener el aumento de la temperatura media global por debajo de los 2 ºC y que incluso no vaya más allá de los 1,5 ºC es una tarea difícil. "Pero hay que empezar ya, si esperamos otra década, entonces sí será imposible". Así de rotundo se muestra el climatólogo James Hansen (Estados Unidos, 1941), tras conocer que su trabajo ha sido merecedor, junto al del japonés Syukuro Manabe, de la novena edición del Premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en la categoría de Cambio Climático. Ambos científicos han sido fundamentales en el desarrollo de los primeros modelos computacionales que fueron capaces de simular el comportamiento del clima y proyectar el impacto de los gases de efecto invernadero en la temperatura terrestre, unas predicciones que hoy en día siguen vigentes y unos modelos que se han vuelto esenciales en el estudio de la evolución del clima. "El desarrollo de nuestra civilización se ha dado en un periodo de miles de años donde ha imperado la estabilidad climática, pero ese periodo está llegando a su fin", explica Hansen. Los riesgos son muchos: "Sabemos que las principales consecuencias vendrán por el deshielo de las grandes masas de hielo de Groenlandia y la Antártida, que harán que aumente el nivel del mar. Más de la mitad de las grandes ciudades del mundo son costeras, y desaparecerán o bien no serán funcionales, y esto provocará la migración de cientos de millones de personas, con consecuencias inimaginables".HISTÓRICO DISCURSO EN 1988 En este sentido, Hansen, quien en mayo de 1988 pronunció un histórico discurso ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos, dos meses antes de que se creara el Panel Intergubernamental del Cambio Climático (IPCC), dice que "hay que actuar ya" y confía en que el nuevo presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, escuche a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Estados Unidos, creada por Abraham Lincoln para asesorar sobre cuestiones científicas de importancia -según recuerda Hansen- y que lleve a cabo los cambios económicos y en el sistema energético que se necesitan. En este sentido, dijo que la fórmula para que "el mercado nos ayude a encontrar las mejores alternativas energéticas es fijar un impuesto al uso de los combustibles fósiles, en vez de seguirlos subsidiando. Y esto no es incompatible, que yo sepa, con las políticas conservadoras". Solo este impuesto y, por supuesto, "dejar las reservas de combustibles fósiles bajo tierra" -insistió-, "nos permitirá reducir las emisiones a un ritmo del 3% anual en los próximos 10 años, que es lo que necesitamos para intentar que la temperatura no suba por encima de los 1,5 ºC sobre el nivel preindustrial". En cuanto a las soluciones que la llamada bioingeniería podría brindarnos para ayudar a reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, el profesor de la Universidad de Columbia dijo que "es importante mejorar las prácticas agrarias y forestales para atrapar más carbono en la biosfera", aunque "si no reducimos nuestras emisiones no servirá de nada", insistió. En este momento "los humanos estamos en un proceso de bioingeniería planetaria, tenemos el control del clima terrestre", afirma. Y para salir airosos de este desafío debemos "lograr que la concentración de CO2 en la atmósfera -actualmente en más de 400 partes por millón (ppm)- se sitúe en las 350 ppm antes de final de siglo", pronostica Hansen. "Se nos acaba el tiempo -insiste el climatólogo- y no es suficiente con los objetivos recogidos en el Acuerdo de París. Hay que tomar acciones de forma urgente, y las primeras deben sersubir el precio [=impuestos] de los combustibles fósiles y fomentar las energías renovables".http://www.madrimasd.org/informacionidi/noticias/noticia.asp?id=68169&origen=notiweb&dia_suplemento=lunes
Europe depends on food from Spain during the winter. With the climate turning hard very hard toward a potential new mini ice age, the freezing cold, wet weather in southern Spain has devastated supplies of vegetables for consumers across Europe. Stores have [size=inherit][/color]begun rationing[/size][/color][/font].The vegetables impacted are broccoli, artichokes, aubergines, iceberg lettuces, zucchini and eggplants. The Spanish regions of Murcia, Almeria and Valencia are the key supply of food for Europe at this time of year but the cold is stretching down into the Middle East. The supply of these and other vegetables during the winter months are being wiped out. Social media is now using the hashtag #courgettecrisis for zucchini they call courgettes.[/color]Meanwhile, last year I reported that Britain was[size=inherit][/color] headed into a mini ice age[/size][/color]. [size=inherit][/color]Energy prices[/size] were starting to rise because of the cold. This year, they are reporting heavy snowfall and average temperatures plunged to [size=inherit][/color]-5C overnight[/size] in conditions which were colder than Iceland.