Bill Gates’ business and charitable accomplishments in danger of being wiped out by his climate denial? Bill Gates Review of “Harvesting the Biosphere” by Vaclav Smil By Bill Gates 7/25/13 NYT // There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil. He jokes that no one reads his books (he’s written more than 30 of them). It’s true that each book only sells a few thousand copies. But I’m trying to read everything he writes.... Vaclav Smil on climate change: “No global warming in past ten years” 10/19/09 NYT Here’s an astonishing segment from a recent interview with futurist Vaclav Smil, conducted by New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin. Smil claims that there has been “no global warming in the past ten years” and appears to suggest that we can safely ignore the problem of climate change because it won’t hit with “full force” any time soon, and its full impact is as yet unknown. Smil is a professor at the University of Manitoba and the author of 30 books.... A Republican Case for Climate Action 8/1/13 nytimes / The United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally--four former heads of the EPA in Republican administrations: William Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William Reilly, Christine Todd Whitman // EACH of us took turns over the past 43 years running the Environmental Protection Agency. We served Republican presidents, but we have a message that transcends political affiliation: the United States must move now on substantive steps to curb climate change, at home and internationally. There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected....
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