...Billionaire George Soros, one-time railway porter, will invest $1 billion of his own money in clean energy technology to combat climate change, says The Guardian. He will also create an organization to advise policy makers on environmental issues, which will receive an annual stipend of $10 million over the next 10 years. Soros, founder of the hedge fund Soros Fund Management LLC and the policy think tank The Open Society Institute, made the announcement this week at a meeting in Copenhagen organised by Project Syndicate, an international association of 430 newspapers...Who will get to pocket the $10 million? Soros says that he's on the prowl for profitable opportunities, but that he "will also insist that the investments make a real contribution to solving the problem of climate change...more from New Scientist here... ...very interesting indeed. I wonder though if he sought Bjorn Lomborg's advice (I note Lomborg is listed as a "thought leader" with Project Syndicate above) re the disbursement of all this dosh ? I wonder too, if his network of 430 newspapers carry much sceptical AGW news ?...and I wonder too, if George Soros is concerned over the deaths of future populations who will be deprived of cheap and efficent energy ?...Wind power, biomass power and animal power were abandoned when the greater energy intensity of fossil fuels became available by use of the steam engine. The increased energy supply enabled more people to exist and the human population exploded. The population is now about 6.6 billion and all estimates indicate that the present population growth will continue and is likely to peak at around 9 billion in the middle of this century. That additional more than 2 billion people requires additional energy supply. Billions of people - mostly children - will die from lack of energy without that additional energy supply. Reducing the energy supply would kill more millions - probably billions - of people. Replacement of fossil fuels by wind and solar is not possible because the laws of physics do not allow it. Only an increase to nuclear power could make much reduction to use of fossil fuels and that reduction is limited because many activities require energy that is not only available where there is a wire...a perceptive commenter here...
...AND not that we're mean or anything, but just for a laugh... women drivers, here...
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Micky, "Only an increase to nuclear power could make much reduction to use of fossil fuels and that reduction is limited because many activities require energy that is not only available where there is a wire..." - but how does it continue? I'm agog.
As for the video, good enough to steal. That bird who managed to turn teh car over by driving into a metal gate should be a stunt-driver!
The complete quote ...A cut of 80% in carbon dioxide emissions would require a similar reduction to use of fossil fuels.
So, man-made global warming is not a global crisis but the unfounded fear of it is. That fear threatens a constraint of fossil fuel use that would kill millions - probably billions - of people.
...and yes, the lady drivers were spectacular. No postings here for a week, I've just returned from the Coramandel with a few friends. Paradise on earth.
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