[ExI] bill gates commentary on climate change

[John Clark]

 Spike wrote:

* > Time delayed realization: Bill Gates has been a leading promoter of the
> global warming notion, but last week much to the surprise of me and plenty
> of others, he backed off of that.  Perhaps he pondered the Singularity
> notion and concluded (as many or most of us here did) that there is low
> probability the Singularity will be far in the future.  He realized it is a
> near-term phenomenon, two or three decades at most, meaning that climate is
> irrelevant.*
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*I think you are probably correct, it's certainly why I don't get all upset
when somebody predicts that by 2100 this or that dreadful thing will
happen. Anybody who thinks they know what will happen in the year 2100 is
simply wrong. *


*John K Clark*

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