Climate Change

“Simulation I do think can also be a cure for many of what we call quote unquote wicked problems.”

“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”

“I got pretty worried about climate change. I think we, and I think we should, you know, and politics seems to have a hard time solving it, especially these days, and so I thought better work on it from the technology side, and that's why we started CASP AI.”

“Climate change will make Greenland more important. Because climate change will make Greenland more important. The ice will melt. You'll have trade routes. You'll have, perhaps, you'll have easier access to some mineral wealth in Greenland.”

“This whole climate change thing was Al Gore's big hoax going back to the nineties.”

“The reality is that, in my opinion, is that we've got at least 50 years before it's a serious issue.”

“They've gone through, like, every government website, right, and deleted anything that could accidentally be a reference to climate change.”

“They obsess about the climate change stuff, because actually, in fact, if you apply intelligence at the scale and availability of electricity, you're going to help climate change. You're going to solve grids and appliances and a bunch of other stuff. And just …”

“But if you look at the math and the economics of it, it's just not even close to top 10 problem in the world today.”

“So the administration is humans first. The previous administration, climate change was first, energy was a subset of climate change, human lives were a subset of energy. For this administration, it's the opposite.”

“I suspect that we've already done sufficient damage to the climate. We're going to have to undo some damage too, even if we got to switch to fusion right away.”

“We've increased atmospheric CO₂ by 50%, hundred percent, it absorbs infrared radiation, it's been a force for warming, that's all true. But if you look at the trade-offs on it, it's not in the top five problems the planet focuses.”

“The existential threat is not a degree of temperature change in 2100. The existential threat was Iran getting a nuclear weapon, ah, and losing the AI arms race to China. Those are the two top order bits in terms of priorities.”

“It's one of these things, though, that I do think is a big macro driver, but it's not like an, it's like climate change in some ways. It's like, it's going to take decades to play out, and that's like one of the problems with it, is that there's no immediate, …”

“The reason that wildfires really reached a crescendo in the last 10 years, in my opinion, is not because of climate change, it's because of things like forest management, it's because of the way we've constructed our electrical grid, sort of more acute, self-i…”

“I think it's guaranteed, unfortunately, and given that it is an inevitable, it's a physics process. I worry about that. That's one of the I think likely outcomes of the next administration that will be a serious impact.”

“By and large, the Republican Party is You know, full of members of Congress who very much believe climate change is happening and is happening. For reasons caused by humans, and now our set of discussions are around how do we solve the issue.”

“The right solve is technological. It's not actually policy but policy can destroy the technological answers.”

“I think the biggest threats to our society aren't climate change or even income inequality. I think it's one extremism from the far left and the far right, and two, I think it's loneliness.”

“I tend to think that, ah, of your scale solution to any world problem, it can be criminal justice, it can be economic justice, but also climate change, 30 to 80% of the solution is a technological solution, so you have to ask yourself what the technological st…”

“We've already seen the curve bend towards the better. If current trends continue, the planet and the biosphere we're on will be not amazing, but better than I thought even five years ago.”

“Climate change, if we don't do anything about it, will probably cost us, say, three, four percent of GDP”

“The problem is most of the things that we're spending money on in climate are very ineffective. What we should be spending more money on It's innovation. Innovation is what's going to solve climate change, just like it's the thing that solved most other proble…”

“A hotter atmosphere and a hotter ocean means more evaporation, and a hotter atmosphere means more humidity in the atmosphere, which means that when it rains, it will be heavily intense rains. Floods will be the norm. But then once the rain stopped, there will …”

“They're going to be basically getting the crumbs from this table of green industrial subsidies. So. We might be in this dilemma where the most aggressive things to solve climate change might actually make for a more unfair world.”

“Yes, the ozone layer has repaired itself to a large extent, but the technology, the chemical which has come after all these variations is now being understood to have major impact on climate change.”

“So in my view, these kind of taxation systems that are emerging in the world, the US has IRA, which is a subsidy system, works the same, because you're subsidizing your own industry versus other industry. Europe has a taxation system. I think those are going t…”

“For climate change, the animal is critical because the only risk mitigation strategy, the true adaptation strategy that a farmer has, is to make sure that the risk is not just in the crop, But also has an ability to keep animals, which then give it meat, which…”

“When you get to pandemic, maybe the only way to solve pandemic is AI. Well, a certain help for climate is AI. It's net, I think, strongly in the positive column. It doesn't to say that it might not add some existential risk characteristics to the overall portf…”

“The climate is a financial risk, and when people politicize and say that climate is a political question, I just don't get it. To me, climate is as political as gravity.”

“Runaway climate change is less than 10 years out.”

“So we can expect, for example, more energy droughts in terms of high demand in summer than in winter, which is something that's before, you know, happened.”

“It is obvious temperatures are changing. Things are in some cases getting better, in some cases getting worse, but the evidence of human driven change is not nearly as compelling as many people think.”

“I don't think AI is going to be the one triggering the next pandemic. It's always going to be climate change.”

“Climate change, CO two is, is definitely a product of inferior technology. And we, you know, I truly believe that through, you know, innovation and you know, new, better technology, we can Live lives that are even more prosperous than today, while at the same …”

“And one of the things I think is naive about that statement and the reason I didn't sign it is because while it can be an existential risk, just like, you know, for example, you create nuclear power and nuclear weapons or an existential risk, it is also one of…”

“Those of us who have lived through a bubble might see certain parallels this time, and this is certainly not your grandmother's venture capital bubble. It's a very different situation. The societal impetus for acknowledging climate change, the bank and financi…”

“It's the only thing of scale that can really get us out of the pickle we're in. Doesn't matter how many trees we plant. We can't get there with trees. They die and give their carbon, a lot of the carbon dioxide back up.”

“So we started a venture funds called propeller, a hundred twenty million dollar fund, where we back startups at the intersection of climate change and the ocean. And I did that a little over a year ago. Going great. So far, so good. We made about 10 investment…”

“It looks like we'll spend more energy to overcome the consequences of climate change, to make up for the lost productivity, or to store the food and the crops.”

“Ask me how much money have I invested in climate change with all that data? Zero. Ask me how much money I've invested in technologies that will benefit climate change as a byproduct of national security, hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“Candidly, it's like people are so worried about the climate crisis. It's like, you want to solve climate? Yeah. Like get like room stable super, superconductors. Like the downstream effects of that are like so good for climate change.”

“Had we deployed it, we would have sidestepped the whole climate change issue that we're in currently.”

“The disaster which is climate change right now would not be happening if we as a society had not let our fears about the first thing translate into an inability to use the upside of nuclear power to save us from what is now arguably the biggest problem in the …”

“I think that the world is overrun with serious problems. I would put at the top of that list, climate change. Nowhere close to second place. I would put nuclear weapons, just since we use that as an example, and I would put AI doing something particularly horr…”

“More than half of what we're doing right now is in the climate change space, but not because I mandated that, but because that's what people were excited about”

“Conditioned or not conditioned on AI, P-Doom is high for the grid, right? We are dealing with climate change and extreme events. We are dealing with a lack of, you know, planning for these things as we saw in Texas, for example. So I don't know that AI increas…”

“But I think what will happen before this climate change inevitability that a lot of people prophesize is I think Geoengineering will become such a big field in itself.”

“For a very long time in our country, TV meteorologists were Outright denialists when it came to climate change. 50 plus, I, it was close to 60% just a few years ago.”

“And I actually attribute a lot of that to improvements in attribution science, right? When we were able to really start saying this specific event is due to climate change, I think that really kind of galvanized the public conversation.”

“From my opinion, if we don't, and the language I use about this, deploy digital infrastructure across all of these different sectors of the economy to help accelerate action against climate change, we will fail. We will not address climate change in a time fra…”

“I think one of the biggest surprises when I started to research misinformation was that people aren't denying the science of climate change. A lot of the misinformation was more related to the solution to climate change.”

“I'm quite concerned about climate change, but I'm also a hundred percent, like, we know how to solve it. It's a tech, it's a technology problem.”

“Currently we're doing, to first order approximation, exactly nothing for climate change.”

“About 60 to 70% of our portfolio is oriented towards strategies addressing climate change. About 20% is oriented towards financial inclusion and seeking different ways to get capital to undercapitalize entrepreneurs, businesses, segments of the economy, commun…”

“Of saying that these are necessary transition partners, we hear this all the time, of you should be investing in these companies to either help them transition faster, or because we're not going to be able to solve climate change without them, and that just co…”

“Climate change is just accelerating the potential of outbreaks with pandemic potential, and so having a global wastewater intelligence system in place is gonna be really critical to our collective public health.”

“And I believe that climate will be that kind of thing. It'll go from something where politicians feel, oh, I can't really talk about it. There's not enough voters. I'm not going to get elected and so forth. I think it's going to go from that to something where…”

“It just, I, I've come to recognize that, well, I think the insurance business, property casualty in particular, is just going to be impossible to judge how much premium you should charge, given the climate change issues.”

“Europe's dependence on Russia for natural gas pipelines plus the act of aggression by Russia may actually cause climate change to be solved, which is, like, an unbelievable story when you're looking at this.”