Bill Gates - let's stop jerking around with batteries & solar panels for climate change
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Gates says we're "jerking around" with the idea that batteries and so called renewables will easily solve climate change.

“Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from? Do planes fly through the sky because of some number you put in a spreadsheet?”

“The idea that we have the current tools and it’s just because these utility people are evil people and if we could just beat on them and put (solar panels) on our rooftop—that is more of a block than climate denial,” Gates said. “The ‘climate is easy to solve’ group is our biggest problem.”

It is on a Youtube video.

A chauvinist is someone who blindly and enthusiastically believes in the superiority of his cause or people.
TinaC,
Educate white women seem to fall into this category !

Indy, TinaC, is just another woman who feels she knows what's wrong with EVERYTHING, and EVERYONE, it's true, just ask her.
What I find stereotypical about these 'kind' of women is their personal belief that they have something to offer that anyone would want to hear.
You may have noticed how they lack the fortitude and imagination to challenge comments objectively, instead they choose the straw man approach which in this case is best described as being promoted by the straw 'women'.
Anyway I take such comments and submissions as moot, until they can debunk the contents/comments, and not engage in personal attacks or observations about the commentor.

Here's what you're after Philip S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgDvG13Hgs
He's not too articulate about it, but he's correct in saying, "There is no substitute for how the industrial economy runs today".

Modern industry can't be bound to circadian rhythms, but there is fear of what abundant, cheap, reliable energy might afford.

Others disagree. At http://slideheaven.com/thinking-about-nuclear-power.html Renewablista-in-Chief, Avery Lovins, is quoted, “Even if nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel, and socially benign it would still be unattractive because of the political implications of the kind of energy economy it would lock us into."

I found this interesting http://www.manasjournal.org/pdf_library/VolumeXXX_1977/XXX-45.pdf

Er..Amory Lovins.....

The hyperlink to Ball 's comments is still not available. I should have delved deeper with hyperlinks before!
Quite priceless, a quote from National Geographic hyperlink:

"In an email exchange Friday, Francis said, “It's absolutely true that fewer cold records are being broken than high-temperature records, which is totally consistent with a warming globe. But this new possible connection between Arctic warming and disrupted stratospheric polar vortex adds nuance to this story, albeit a complicated one that will take a while to verify—or not.”"

Tim Ball says definitely that jet streams are the cause of the cold conditions, while the pioneer of jet stream research Professor Francis is more circumspect.