An Open Letter to Mr. Bill Gates | Watts Up With That?

The Quality of Life for the World’s Poorest Can Be Advanced Farther, Faster, Cheaper and More Surely Through Adaptation than Through Zero-Carbon Technologies

Guest Post By Indur M. Goklany

Unbearably stupid polar bear advertising | Watts Up With That?

The ad agency that serves Nissan (as does Nissan management) deserves a smack upside the head for promoting the idea that you can hug a polar bear. Some people are actually stupid enough to try it.

2009: Video: Woman Jumped In to Hug Polar Bears, Almost Became Their Meal « Under The Hill

There are four pictures of the woman swimming up near a polar bear (look at the size of that thing in one picture!). She was very stupid by putting her life at risk. Probably as result of watching all that global warming propaganda movies and TV shows about how cute, cuddly and endangered polar bears are, with the excessive marketing and merchandising of “aww, how cute” factor being played on young people’s minds. Like that woman’s mind. No common sense there.

The Reference Frame: Klaus: I am increasingly convinced that freedom, not climate, is threatened

Another statement appears increasingly often in my speeches: just like the freedom, the mankind's prosperity is in danger, too. That shouldn't be surprising because freedom and prosperity are communicating vessels. One is impossible without the other. The environmentalist attitudes we encounter these days, and the economic policies that follow from them, are attacks against both values, especially in the poorer countries. In those places, hundreds of millions of people are at risk that these policies will keep their lives at a "subsistence level" for decades to come.