Bill Gates on 60 Minutes just now.

[NNadir]

13. If I thought Bill Gates was oracular, it might disturb me. However I don't do...

..."appeal to authority" arguments.

If I did, maybe I'd let Bonnie Raitt tell me about nuclear power.

We just spent close to 3 trillion of dollars on solar and wind energy, more money than Bill Gates has. It has failed, absolutely, to address climate change in any meaningful way. The so called "exponential growth" of so called "renewable energy" doesn't even match the growth in one dangerous fossil fuel, dangerous natural gas, in this benighted century of trying the same thing over and over and over and over and expecting a different result.

It would be a mistake to assume that Bill Gates is an all seeing God. He's a successful businessman with a lot of money, and that's all.

Even he has to genuflect at the altar of "renewable energy will save us," although the current concentrations of carbon dioxide suggest that the temple where the altar resides is more about faith than about reality.

He's right that we require nuclear power to address climate change. He's wrong that so called "renewable energy" works. Clearly it hasn't worked, it isn't working and it won't work.

That's a fact.

Facts matter.