Bill Gates has rejected a “doomsday view” of climate change, saying it will not lead to humanity’s demise, in the latest example of elite backtracking on Net Zero following public backlash at the rising costs and harms. The Times has more.
The billionaire philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, who has long supported efforts to combat global warming, advocated a more measured approach to fighting climate change in a lengthy memo published on Tuesday.
Gates, 70, warned that the climate community was overly focused on “near-term emissions goals”, while diverting resources away from efforts to improve humans’ lives in a warming world. The doomsday narrative that predicted climate change would decimate civilisation was wrong, he said.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he said.
“People will be able to live and thrive in most places on earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.”
Gates called for a renewed focus on preventing human suffering, particularly for those “in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries”.
“Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare,” he said. “The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been. Understanding this will let us focus our limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact for the most vulnerable people.”
Okay, so it’s not a recognition that carbon dioxide is not a harmful pollutant that is having negligible impact on global temperatures while boosting plant growth. But by dialling down the catastrophism and regaining a semblance of perspective, it’s a step in the right direction.
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Strangely, he also has a holiday home very close to sea level. Presumably he thinks rising sea levels will only drown the proles and not him since he is superior and an asset to mankind. Maybe being the son of a eugenicist has tainted his beliefs.
“Bill Gates: Climate Change is Not the End of the World”
No, but that cunt Gates, evil incarnate, may be
Gates desperately tries to restore his badly damaged reputation. And fails.
I wonder if Bill Gates has noticed that more and more people and organisations don’t believe a word of the ‘climate crisis’ narrative and he’s changing his rhetoric to avoid looking foolish?
It is all too much for a soothsayer to be honest whilst turning about in a head wind, especially when considering the immense damage and economic cost of his words.
Climate change a d global warming is the biggest scam in communist minded history. Anti freedom enterprise communism at its worst. Anti humanity. Crush the leftist, green blob
The propagating of any ‘doomerism’, in any domain, is a mistake – unless it’s intended to manifest fear in a population to elicit specific behavioural responses. That’s not a mistake, that’s intentional.
Judge a person by the company that they keep so of course it should be remembered that Billy boy was a good friend of the pedo Epstein,
I think it was Netflix that have a documentary on him and his then wife Melinda. I watched the first five minutes or so before I couldn’t take the sycophancy anymore and stopped the stream. After Covid when challenged he responded “Who knew?”, apparently that would be the experts and not the people who surrounds himself with.
The proverbial rats leaving a sinking ship would come to mind here …
Maybe we just need a bigger rat trap….
I welcome Bill Gates more nuanced approach to living in a warming world. The catastrophe tool must have worn out due to overuse.
I do not begrudge Gates his enormous fortune. But I don’t think it should entitle him to his opinions being taken more seriously than those of any other guy. He’s just another private person with private opinion.
“The biggest problems are poverty and disease”
Code for… ” I haven’t got enough of the population jabbed up so we’ll come back to the climate scam after the next Scamdemic. “
“The billionaire philanthropist”
That’s funny. The definition of “philanthropist” was clearly changed possibly around the time “pandemic” and “safe and effective,” and all the rest got makeovers.
😀😀😀
It happened long before that mate given how all these funds and foundations set up by good people in the 18th and 19th centuries are now Far Left slush funds to undermine the wishes of the majority of the population.
Bjorn Lomborg has been making the exact same thing for years.
We need more than “steps” at this juncture, sadly.
Bill is a prime example of people who think that because they have managed to accrue large wealth, they are therefore an expert on everything.
Yes, it really is “a step in the right direction”, as Will Jones said.
But guess where Gates is going to focus his efforts on now, in order to “help humanity”?
VACCINES!!!
Bill Gates now says climate change won’t be as serious as he fears – and calls for more spending on vaccines instead | Daily Mail Online
A wealthy weasel and self-appointed climatologist and public health expert acknowledges decades of Convenient Untruth and sets off on a reverse ferret.
Even better: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/28/ed-miliband-admits-wind-power-less-reliable-than-expected/
Heard this last night. My jaw could have dropped but face was too busy making a “FFS. You Stupid, Ridiculous, Brainless OAF!” As a badge from the 1980s that I still have observes: “Great oafs from little children grow”
It is on Good Afternoon Britain on GB News now with some bald ecofascist from the Green Alliance trying to defend it with a plethora of lies such as windmills made our electricity 25% cheaper last year. Really?? Was I in a coma and missed that reduction on my bills?
The Trump effect?
Bill sees the gig is over.
100% right – this is Gates repositioning, same as Blair has been doing – they aren’t stupid and know which way the wind is blowing… (or not if you need power)
Gates says: “climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else”.
I have news for him: so will the drive for Net Zero.
Don’t trust that man. The most we should do is ignore him.
Calling him a cretin would be unfair to cretins the world over.
Bill Gates, non medic, non scientist, non elected politician. Just a very, very rich man, who was done for Market fixing, and who shoves injections on the third world and the first during Covid, makes a ton of buck, AND is still given a level of importance by the MSM and the WEF faithful well above the man’s actual capabilities.
I like to think of him as a very wealthy taxi driver equivalent, like taxi drivers, he has an opinion, but I don’t expect to have Bob the Cabbies views and opinions spouted across the world as if they were gospel
The good news is that his protection from prosecution in Kenya has been suspended due to his involvement in a tetanus jab that strangely included an ablility to sterilise women. We can only hope that they do prosecute him over this.
A short hop and a long drop would be far more fitting.
Philanthropist !! Please spare our blood pressure.
The man is nothing but a snake who is seeing the green scam crumbling under Trump in the USA.
He must be equally furious that RFK Jun is also closing in on the lucrative big Pharma scams.
The word is “philanthropath.”
I think most people are missing what is actually behind this.
AI needs energy. Huge amounts of energy. Energy starvation through mad NetZero policy means the premature death of AI. And there is a lot of money to be made from AI, especially when your company, Microsoft, is leading the pack.
Gates is like everyone else in that his beliefs over time become aligned with his self interest. He’s different in that he has the power and resources that when he acts on his beliefs (i.e. pursues his personal interests), we are all affected.
Good point!
And of course if ‘disease’ is one of the biggest threats, then Bill will be there with a drug ready to sell it to you.
Good food and clean water would, in most cases, be far more useful than another jab.
Good food, clean water and effective sewage disposal.
But Gates would never want to build good sewage systems, no, he would rather switch off people’s noses. This from 2016 is the moment I realised Gates is a nasty, nasty man, an imbecile, a psychopath and a crook. Unique.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/smells-of-success
“…attack the problem on a molecular level at the connection between our noses and our brains.”
“…block certain receptors in our noses, making us unable to register certain malodors.”
“…inhibit the activation of the olfactory receptors sensitive to malodors.”
Any more needs saying?
The guy wants to treat his fellow humans like computer programs.
Interesting, especially because the Globalists want us to get used to being dirty, malodorous serfs again, living in huts without plumbing or electricity, lugging buckets of water home from rivers or pumping it by hand from a well, eating rotten food that we cannot smell, wearing the same set of clothes all year because we can afford no others, and going barefoot because we cannot afford shoes.
He’d want to build sewage systems that automatically become obsolete and irreparable after a few years, and sell you a new alternative!
Makes Dr Mengele look less evil.
Yes, but… Good food, clean water and available/affordable energy.
Sadly, the outlay is far in excess of any returns so that’s a ‘no go.’
“Good food and clean water would,
in most cases,always be far more useful than another jab.”