Oh good GOD there is NOTHING controversial about CLimate Change to 99% of the world's scientists, go ask them, jebuz!
"Climate gate", right, you have actually read it have you? Guess what: academics are people, and p*ssed off people because the coal and other polluting inustries have been funding pundits to spew crap to deluded folk, attack their work and even harass them personally, hm?
Ever saw what the tobacco companies did to cancer researchers etc? SAME THING.
I am sick to death of hearing folk regurgitate crap JunkScience and other industry-backed pundits spew :/
No, volcanoes do not produce anything like the amount of CO2 we Humans do, we produce at the very least, 100 times more CO2 than all the worlds volcanoes ocmbined, go ask the US geological survey, you know, actual experts, not funded by tobacco, oil and coal companies, hm?
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/climate.php
Even heard nitwits claim CO2 is not a greenhouse gas...you cna test that yourself very easily! just take 2 empty soda bottles, fit each with a thermometer, fill one with CO2 from a Sodatream or similar fizzy drinks machine, put both bottles in a sunny window or grrnhouse and watch temperature inside the bottle.
Humans are both creating a new geogolical age AND a mass extinction, that's how terrible our impact has become. We move more rock and earth than all the Earth's rivers combined, we're wiping out nealry all the non-domesticated large animals...ugh!
I'm not some idiot who wants us to go live in mud huts, there was no "magical Golden Age", I now very well how awful things were in times past, but we're going to wipe our silly selves out at this rate of continous destruction. We are a large land animal, highly reliant upon a bio-sphere status quo we are screwing with, that's incredibly stupid
Anyway as for BIll gates...haha, check his company's history, not exaclty what I'd call a flagship of moral superiority or reliability
And as we're now seeing, vaccines are not the "problem free miracle" they have been sold as.
Vaccines yes, helpful, IF DONE RIGHT. but the folks in Africa also need education and civil engineering to sort out problems.
The West screwed up: Colonial systems at least gave some stability and infrastructure but left lingering resentments and conflicts form horrible abuse and partions not based on local needs
later IMF/American resources theft was even worse than the Colonial systems and while there was no direct abuse it supported insane dictators and did litle true solid and sane infrastructure work (Peace Corp folk are awesome, but lots of bad stuff has gone on, see why African gays are now being killed, or the nutty stuff the IMF has done)
Now the Chinese of all folks are actually getting things working there, ah the irony, so they are taking more and more resources as locals see the CHinese systems working, sure there's bribes, but the Chinese dont' tolerate folk screwing around, and want stability.
It's STABILITY like it or not, that eventually leads to positive change. Stability = education, civil engineering etc, as time goes on, cultures change, settle, improve. Public health is factor in promoting stability.
Sorry to break it to people but "Democracy" does not magically enter people's heads, no matter the silly crap that's been said. It takes cultures a long time to "grow up" to the true understanding of what *practical* Democracy actually is,
and a desire to support it. Without strong support for the rule of law, amity, no support for violence or tribal crap etc, democracy cannot happen.
Go look at the history of the UK to grasp this. You have to think on a historic timescale. The rare farsighted, wise individual is NOT the issue, the problem is always that the
culture has to evolve to
support Democracy.
/rant off
