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2023-09-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Bill Gates Funds Plan to Chop Down, Bury Millions of Trees

Following the theme of the Biden administration’s carbon dioxide pipelines from the other day, herewith the private side of this public-private partnership.

[PJMedia] If there’s a terrible dystopian idea out there, it seems Microsoft founder Bill Gates is always sure to fund it. The latest insanity in which he’s investing is a project to chop down and then bury millions of acres’ worth of trees. Supposedly, this will help save the Earth from climate change.

MIT Technology Review reported that Kodama Systems had raised around $6.6 million, a hefty sum, from Breakthrough Energy Ventures, billionaire Bill Gates’s climate fund. Trees will be cut down in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and buried in Nevada for this "stealth effort," which Kodama characterizes as "biomass burial." The Epoch Times posted a video clip on August 30 explaining Kodama’s plan to cut down and bury trees on millions of acres and how Gates is involved if you want a less credulous account than what MIT Technology Review provided. Yale researchers and payment company Stripe are also reportedly involved in funding or supporting the plan.

The first irony about this plan is that climate alarmists have spent many years hysterically insisting that no brush thinning or logging can occur, to the point where forests turned into tinderboxes just waiting for massive wildfires to happen. Yet now suddenly trees are "fire hazards," and logging isn’t bad for the environment. It’s the only thing that can save us?

But the second point is that none of this wood will be used for anything. We know the globe isn’t warming but rather cooling and that the fearmongering about emissions and climate change has been just empty words founded on unscientific ideology for more than 50 years.

We don’t need to freak out about carbon emissions. The people at the top like Gates know that; they remember how many years they’ve been proved wrong in their predictions. They also keep flying private jets and buying beachfront mansions (like Gates’s San Diego palatial estate), showing how little they believe their own propaganda. So what is the real motivation here?

MIT Technology Review presents the theory that burying trees that have absorbed carbon dioxide will keep the carbon safely underground instead of damaging the climate. What MIT did not explain is that all living things, including humans, are carbon-based life forms (we need carbon to survive). But MIT did admit there are "many unknowns" about this idea of chopping down and burying trees, meaning that we really don’t know what the end results will be. Very reassuring, yes?

The claim for people who support this plan is that once they get rid of excess trees, the remaining trees can be more healthy. First of all, I don’t trust anything these people say, since climate alarmists have been proven blatant liars again and again. Are they "thinning out" forests or devastating them?

Second, trees turn carbon into oxygen, which of course is necessary for humans to breathe. We know that Bill Gates has advocated for a massive reduction of the global population before. How do we know this new plan isn’t intended to harm humans? It certainly won’t help humans, since the wood is all going to be buried and the trees will no longer be able to convert carbon into oxygen.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 I think our country is headed towards a course correction for the better. I am hopeful that Gates, Soros and Oprah, along with other bad folks will suffer misfortune in the process. That is my hope. There is no rational basis for it, but it would be nice to see the end of Bill’s funding of our destruction.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-09-05 05:26|| 2023-09-05 05:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Haven’t these climate wack-a-doodles been planting 3 to 10 trees for every one cut down for years to fight climate change. Isn’t that one way corporations can get zero carbon ratings (by planting trees)?

Posted by Airandee 2023-09-05 06:49|| 2023-09-05 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm reminded of the episode where planetary colonists in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adopted leaves as their new currency and then deforested the planet to control the value of the currency.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-05 07:19|| 2023-09-05 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 New tech boosts Dutch drive for sustainable farming

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-05 08:43|| 2023-09-05 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 perhaps we start with his landscaping...He - personally is a huge emitter of CO2 also so add his worthless ass to the mix

Posted by Warthog 2023-09-05 09:17|| 2023-09-05 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 MIT Technology Review presents the theory that burying trees that have absorbed carbon dioxide will keep the carbon safely underground instead of damaging the climate.

To keep the carbon sequestered for a long time (vs turning it into worm and microbe food), you first have to turn it into charcoal. That is terribly polluting in its own right. Can't imagine CARB allowing it (w/o a few well greased, politically connected palms).

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-09-05 10:40|| 2023-09-05 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Caltech Drops Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics Course from Admissions Requirement

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-05 10:42|| 2023-09-05 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 We don’t need to freak out about carbon emissions.

A greener way to go: what’s the most eco-friendly way to dispose of a body?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-05 12:04|| 2023-09-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe a tree will fall on him.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-09-05 12:19|| 2023-09-05 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Is it just me, or all these billionaires might be (a very select class) of idiot savants - no sense outside of narrow field of making money?
Gates, Soros, now Musk is suing ADL for crashing Twitter (ADL coudn't crash a grocery store).

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-09-05 12:38|| 2023-09-05 12:38|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Cholutle Thrans9751 2023-09-05 12:48|| 2023-09-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Tell Bill Gates he can cut down and bury as many trees as he wants as long as they are his trees on his land and he uses only an Axe and a shovel. Have at it.

Posted by airandee 2023-09-05 13:52|| 2023-09-05 13:52|| Front Page Top

#13 He could recycle the wood for pulp and printing, but I guess the demand for bird cage is down.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-05 17:40|| 2023-09-05 17:40|| Front Page Top

#14 If we bury enough trees long enough, they will eventually turn into coal. Then, when civilization finally reboots itself after all this green nonsense, they can burn the coal for cheap energy.

I swear, all these people going on about using trees and 'biomass' to capture CO2 makes me think I was the only one awake in 5th grade science when we learned about the Carbon Cycle.

Posted by SteveS 2023-09-05 21:11|| 2023-09-05 21:11|| Front Page Top

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