Kid on the dock: "Dad, what do those signs say?"

Bill: "Dunno - they're all backwards."

Bill and Melinda Gates built this vast Vanity Project, the Gates Foundation, to hide the fact that they're making a killing off fossil fuel extraction.

What's the point of keeping people alive through public health interventions only to let them die later because of #ClimateChaos?

I hope that Bill Gates Sr., Bill Jr., and Melinda Gates will indeed invest in safeguarding what is so beautifully and desirably sustainable about our part of the world. Future generations depend on what happens locally, regionally, nationally and globally now.

@2: Wow---that's sad. Hopefully the Kayakitivists will help them change their minds and put the overall big picture into better perspective.

Keep Fossil Fuels in the ground? How many of those IDIOTS drove to the park where they launched from? They have no credibility. When you hold signs saying Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground. You're holding yourself to a pretty high standard. FF being Out Of The Ground is what allows them to protest. So, you want them in the ground or not. If you're/they're for "IN" . Then they need to stop driving and kayaking. FF's, remember. You can't have it both ways. You're for it, or you're not. Right now, they just look like Hypocrites.

In the 21st century, there isn't a geologist worth his degree that things hydrocarbons in the Earth come from dinosaurs. Hence there are no "fossil" fuels.

Windows still sucks.

Why is a concern of anyone how people spend their philanthropic money?

It turns out road accidents are the leading cause of death among young people (15-29 yo) worldwide. More than malaria in many African countries per WHO. This isn't anything to put on your anti-fossil signs though. It's more about the obscene disconnect on this tiny blue planet. We can talk about income disparity and the 1%. But to the majority of earth's billions, we here are the 1% with all our smart phones, LEED buildings, and 5 pairs of shoes just for walking.

Bill Gates can disinvest, but can we?

(BTW, at current oil prices of $47/barrel, the Saudis will run out of money in 5 years. They gambled and lost. Americans oil producers became more efficient and I like to think we have too as consumers. But alas the fight for alternative energy like solar needs more kayaktivists in the desert.)

@8: Yep, after decades on Windows driving a mac is like finally having leather seats and power steering.

Stay away from Bill Gates private property. Keep your fiberglass kayak on the roof of your Volvo and drive around to all the Starbucks drive throughs and impress everyone.

Hey Mike McGinn, you hatched this plan for an arena with Hansen in a series of private meetings outlining its structure AND also suggesting living wage jobs be an important part of granting an Alley Vacation for a West Seattle project that had Whole Foods as a tenant.

Hansen's arena still has an Occidental Avenue street vacation winding through the council. How many living wage jobs are written into the MOU ? What proportion of workers must be full time/earn above a yearly wage floor? Surely, the city has leverage considering the project wants to be "gifted" nearly all the direct taxes it would generate over 30 years.

@7: You do realize that it is not just dinosaurs that make fossils. Right?

Truly sad. Here is a group of morons that are mad that Bill doesn't want to meet with them. I have news for you that you may not want to here. Bill is busy meeting actual scientists and giving away billions with a B annually to researchers trying to solve issue like global warming, diseases, and education ect... The gates foundation has spent almost 35 billion dollars on global issues. I'm sorry if your little club doesn't have his interest. He is meeting people with doctors degrees and are interested in helping people for the other peoples sake, not floating around with your friends so that you can feel better about yourself. Pathetic. You can do actual good for the community instead of what you are really doing. Try not bringing cameras and inviting the news, then you know it is real and organic.

I wouldn't talk to them either. Bill Gates is the biggest giver on the planet. He deserves more respect. Make a fucking appointment with the Gates Foundation and don't think you are so important that it will be Bill Gates talking to you.

Apparently it's okay to burn fossil fuel if it's for a "motorized boat full of reporters and photographers."

Fucking hypocrites ...

Harassing people at home should really be off limits.

@7: I RAGED SO HARD
MY FLOOR TURNED TO LAVA

Basically what Theodore Gorath said. You just got on this paleontologist's last nerve. Prepare for trouble.

The social norms thing is a load of baloney. They talk about how evil fossil fuels are while using cars to haul their plastic boats around. Come back on the social norms thing when there is a viable alternative to using gasoline and then we can talk, until then it's just meaningless. With the 2 billion you mentioned Gates has done more for combating global warming and promoting renewable energy than any of these people ever will.

"high-risk investments in energy research"

Get fucked, there's nothing wrong with investments in energy research, you anti-science shits.