{"id":1539135,"date":"2022-07-05T07:35:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539135"},"modified":"2022-07-05T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:36:07","slug":"if-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-actually-cared-about-climate-change-theyd-stop-schmoozing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-actually-cared-about-climate-change-theyd-stop-schmoozing-china\/","title":{"rendered":"If Bill Gates And Elon Musk Actually Cared About Climate Change, They\u2019d Stop Schmoozing China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-bill-gates-and-elon-musk-actually-cared-about-climate-change-theyd-stop-schmoozing-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539135&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/40705940233_19002d0d5a_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk and Bill Gates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-shorting-tesla-wont-hurt-musk-says-sigh-2022-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have long quibbled<\/a>\u00a0over who cares more about climate change. In April,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-turned-down-bill-gates-philanthropy-over-tesla-short-2022-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Musk refused<\/a>\u00a0a climate-related philanthropic contribution from Gates because the Microsoft co-founder made a multibillion-dollar bet against his Tesla car company. Gates responded by claiming he gives a lot more to climate change causes than anyone else does, including Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as is common with elites who promote climate activist agendas, both ignore the big picture about ensuring human and planetary health around the globe,\u00a0and their preferred remedies to these policy concerns will only make things worse.<\/p>\n<p>Those predisposed to believing in \u201cdangerous anthropogenic climate change\u201d and the need to increase government power to resolve the supposed crisis have drawn their predictable conclusions. But\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/climatechangereconsidered.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">objective studies<\/a>\u00a0establish that the evidence does not credibly support assertions that manmade greenhouse gases are causing dangerous warming and weather.<\/p>\n<p>The movement\u2019s standard-bearers have glossed over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/_template-assets\/documents\/publications\/NIPCC%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inconvenient evidence<\/a>\u00a0for years. Earth\u2019s climate has always changed, and for decades the predicted disasters have turned out to be false prophecies. In reality, far more people die in cold weather than in hot spells, and a slightly warmer planet would be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/_template-assets\/documents\/publications\/full-report-ccr-ii-biological-impacts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quite beneficial<\/a>\u00a0for both humanity and the plant and animal kingdoms.<\/p>\n<p>What evidence proves that today\u2019s climate fluctuations and weather events aren\u2019t due to the same natural forces that have affected Earth throughout history?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2018\/12\/26\/will-be-first-year-with-no-violent-tornadoes-united-states\/\">Tornado records<\/a>\u00a0show more violent twisters from 1950-1985 than during the years since, and not a single\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2017\/09\/22\/irma-illusions-and-realities\/\">Category 3-5 hurricane<\/a>\u00a0made U.S. landfall for a record 12 years, 2005-2017.\u00a0Why should we disrupt our energy, economy, and living standards because computer models claim there\u2019s a crisis?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As much as Gates and Musk claim to disagree with these realities, their actions don\u2019t show it. Like Al Gore, John Kerry, and Leonardo DiCaprio,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifestyleasia.com\/ind\/gear\/motoring\/bill-gates-car-collection-private-jet\/#:~:text=Bill%20Gates%20apparently%20owns%20two,G650%20and%20the%20Gulfstream%20G650ER.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they both<\/a>\u00a0fly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-private-jet-gulfstream-g550-wealth-lifestyle-photos-tour-2022-5#:~:text=Elon%20Musk%20bought%20a%20Gulfstream,G550s%20retail%20from%20%2414%20million.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private planes<\/a>\u00a0regularly, which is supposedly a no-no for stalwarts of the climate cause (even though hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/400-private-jets-follow-bezos-65-million-plane-summit-lecture-world-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private jets<\/a>\u00a0flew wealthy alarmists to the 2021 Glasgow climate summit).<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire climate club members do something else at odds with environmental ethics:\u00a0They frequently do business with China.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is quite cozy with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59595952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communist regime<\/a>. From taking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tesla-china-loan-exclusive\/exclusive-tesla-to-take-new-14-billion-loan-from-chinese-banks-for-shanghai-factory-sources-idUSKBN1YR0U0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions in regime-funded loans<\/a>, to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3173723\/elon-musk-featured-chinese-embassy-event-focused-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speaking for an event<\/a> at\u00a0their embassy, to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/21\/teslas-expansion-in-xinjiang-sets-a-poor-example-say-us-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">building a factory<\/a>\u00a0in Xinjiang amid the Uyghur genocide, the world\u2019s richest man is surprisingly comfortable working with a state founded on ideologies based on hatred and abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gates stretched the limits of U.S. security laws to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/03\/03\/red-handed-bill-gates-developed-nuclear-reactors-that-help-china-overtake-the-u-s-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">help China<\/a>\u00a0build nuclear reactors that are particularly suitable for powering naval vessels. He did this as China continued making strategic long-term moves to control ever-larger swaths of the Pacific Ocean and surpass U.S. naval power in critical areas.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do these billionaires have no problem working with China, but they also rarely, if ever, criticize the regime. In fact, Musk regularly praises it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/31\/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-rocks-us-full-of-entitlement.html\">saying it \u201crocks\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and meeting with communist officials on multiple occasions. This is perplexing, since China is by far the world\u2019s biggest carbon dioxide (CO2) emitter.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/28\/world\/china-us-climate-cop26-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN report<\/a> found that in 2019, China\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions were approximately 2.5 times those of the United States \u2014\u00a0and \u201cmore than all the world\u2019s developed countries combined.\u201d China emitted 14.1 billion metric tons of CO2-equivalent that year, making up more than a fourth of the emissions from the entire world.\u00a0Given these statistics, why are Musk and Gates so quick to criticize America but never reprimand China?<\/p>\n<p>They clearly don\u2019t live by the environmental principles they preach and, at a minimum, appear hesitant to criticize the world\u2019s worst greenhouse gas emitter, toxic chemicals polluter, and child and slave labor practitioner. Making matters worse, the policies they push will weaken, not strengthen, the cause of public health.<\/p>\n<p>As Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis, founder\u00a0of the Conservative Climate Caucus, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/house-republicans-congressional-progressive-caucus-climate-agenda\/\">explained<\/a> to the Daily Caller News Foundation, \u201ckilling American fossil fuels just causes them to be\u00a0replaced by dirtier foreign sources, and in particular Chinese and Russian production.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that we instead start \u201cattacking carbon emissions, not energy sources, through carbon capture, American innovation, natural solutions, and other paths that boost the American economy while reducing global emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, over the last decade, the United States has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/30\/united-states-paris-accords-donald-trump-joe-biden-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduced carbon emissions<\/a>\u00a0more than any other country in the world. It is part of the solution, not part of the problem. <\/p>\n<p>Yet Musk, Gates, and other billionaires who promote climate alarmism continue to support policies like the Paris Climate Accords, which would impose significant restrictions on the United States while allowing China to continue increasing emissions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-beijing-loves-biden-and-paris-11613937344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">through 2030<\/a>.\u00a0Musk went so far as to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-06-elon-musk-white-house-advisory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stop serving on<\/a>\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s advisory panels to protest the president\u2019s decision to withdraw from this counterproductive agreement.<\/p>\n<p>If these climate activists wish to make a difference in human and environmental health around the world, they must change their perspective and their relationship with Communist China. At a minimum, they must begin practicing what they preach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they appear unwilling to do so. They\u2019d rather make noise than foster productive change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/%E2%80%9C\">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow<\/a> and author of numerous books and articles on energy, climate, environmental, and human rights issues.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk and Bill Gates\u00a0have long quibbled\u00a0over who cares more about climate change. 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