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Elon Musk and Bill Gates\u00a0have long quibbled<\/a>\u00a0over who cares more about climate change. Just days ago,\u00a0Musk refused<\/a>\u00a0a philanthropic contribution from Gates because the Microsoft co-founder made a multi-billion-dollar bet against his Tesla car company. Gates responded by claiming he gives a lot more to climate change causes than anyone else, including Musk.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, as is common with elites who promote climate activist agendas, both ignore the big picture when it comes to ensuring human and planetary health around the globe,\u00a0and their preferred remedies to these policy concerns will only make things worse.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0objective studies<\/a>\u00a0establish that the evidence does not credibly support assertions that manmade greenhouse gases are causing dangerous warming and weather.<\/p>\n The movement\u2019s standard-bearers have glossed over\u00a0inconvenient 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\u00a0quite beneficial<\/a>\u00a0for both humanity and the plant and animal kingdoms.<\/p>\n 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?\u00a0Tornado records<\/a>\u00a0show fewer violent twisters 1950-1985 than during the years since, and not a single\u00a0Category 3-5 hurricane<\/a>\u00a0made U.S. landfall for a record 12 years, 2005-2012.<\/p>\n Why should we disrupt our energy, economy, and living standards because computer models claim there\u2019s a crisis?<\/p>\n 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 Di Caprio,\u00a0they both<\/a>\u00a0fly\u00a0private planes<\/a>\u00a0regularly, which is supposedly a no-no for stalwarts of the climate cause, and hundreds of\u00a0private jets<\/a>\u00a0flew wealthy alarmists to the 2021 Glasgow climate summit.<\/p>\n Billionaire climate club members do something else that\u2019s at odds with the environmental ethics movement:\u00a0they frequently do business with China.<\/p>\n Musk is quite cozy with the\u00a0communist regime<\/a>. From taking\u00a0billions in regime-funded loans<\/a>, to\u00a0speaking at<\/a>\u00a0their embassy, to\u00a0building 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.<\/p>\n Gates stretched the limits of U.S. security laws to\u00a0help 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 and surpass U.S. naval power in critical areas.<\/p>\n Not only do these billionaires have no problem working with China; they also rarely, if ever, criticize the regime. In fact, Musk regularly praises it,\u00a0saying 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 A recent\u00a0CNN<\/em> report<\/a>\u00a0provides the details. It found that in 2019, China\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions were approximately 2.5 times those of the United States \u2014\u00a0and more than all the world\u2019s developed nations combined. In terms of CO2 equivalent, China emitted 14.1 billion metric tons that year \u2013 more than a quarter of the entire world\u2019s emissions.<\/p>\n Given these statistics, why are Musk and Gates so quick to criticize America \u2014 but never reprimand the People\u2019s Republic?<\/p>\n 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 Congressman John Curtis (R-Utah), founder\u00a0of the Conservative Climate Caucus, recently made this clear in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation<\/em>. He\u00a0noted that \u201ckilling American fossil fuels just causes them to be\u00a0replaced by dirtier foreign sources<\/a>, in particular Chinese and Russian.\u201d<\/p>\n 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 Indeed, over the last decade, the U.S. has\u00a0reduced carbon emissions<\/a>\u00a0more than any other country in the world. It is part of the solution, not part of the problem. Yet, Musk, Gates, and the like continue to support policies like the Paris climate accord, which would impose significant restrictions on the U.S. while allowing China to continue increasing emissions\u00a0through 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n Musk went so far as to\u00a0stop serving on<\/a>\u00a0President Donald Trump\u2019s advisory panels, to protest the President\u2019s decision to withdraw from this counterproductive agreement.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, they appear unwilling to do so. They\u2019d rather make noise than foster productive change.<\/p>\n Paul Driessen, a freelance author, is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (<\/em>www.CFACT.org<\/em><\/a>), and author of\u00a0Eco-Imperialism: Green power – Black death\u00a0and articles on energy, climate, and other issues.<\/em><\/p>\n \n