Bill Gates interview...
<http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/we-need-an-energy-miracle/407881/>
....The heating levels have not tracked the climate models exactly,
and the skeptics have had a heyday with that. It’s all within the
error-bar range. To me, it’s pretty clear that there’s nothing that
relieves this as a big problem. But when people act like we have this
great certainty, they somewhat undermine the credibility. There’s a
lot of uncertainty in this, but on both the good and the bad side.
By overclaiming, or even trying to ascribe current things more to
climate change than to other effects, environmentalists lend weight to
skeptics like Chuck Norcutt. Like, in the near term, the Pacific
oscillation, this El Niño thing, has a much bigger impact on current
weather than climate change has had so far. Now, climate change keeps
/climbing/ all the time—it just keeps summing, summing, summing, and
adding up. So, as you get up to 2050, 2080, 2100, its effect
overwhelms the Pacific oscillation.
So we have to have dramatic change here. It’s unprecedented to move
this quickly, to change an infrastructure of this scale—it’s /really/
unprecedented.....
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