Bill Gates changes mind on Global Warming.

I think that you may be misreading Gate's statement. What he stated now was that he doesn't believe all life will cease because of climate change, but that many people will die from lack of food, housing will become less available, etc. It is also so that the effects of climate change will be more profound on those in the lower socio-economic levels, further produce inequity.

He came to realize that using the doomsday approach was counterproductive in trying to explain the problem.

@ItsMeMorgue says Did Gates ever say that, or is that another straw man fallacy?

I think many opponents of Gates & Gore misunderstood the predictions and deadlines. The most significant deadline was and is the "tipping point." This is the point at which there's enough CO2 in the atmosphere that we can't get back to the climate & sea level equilibrium that spanned the 1800s and 1900s. I think many opponents of Gates & Gore mistook the tipping point for the final event.

In the 1990s, predictions of the year of tipping point were based on continuing or extrapolating the exponential growth in CO2 output seen in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.


As you can see, the exponential curve has shifted. This pushed the tipping point farther in the future. Gates' 2021 book was about carbon reduction to avert the tipping point entirely. His new strategy seems to say that is no longer possible; that mitigating the effects on the most vulnerable is now a better approach.

A NOTE regarding plane fights by climate activists, entertainers, etc. In this day and age it is very easy to purchase carbon offsets for your travel, and that's what these people do. Here are some reputable providers
1. Gold Standard
2. Verra - Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)
3. Climate Action Reserve
4. American Carbon Registry

You can also check out the United Nations Carbon Offset Platform.

You have wilfully misrepresented what he actually said.

He was proposing a more pragmatic approach to global warming, weighing it up against other threats to humanity. For example, given the choice between eradicating malaria and allowing temperatures to rise by 0.1°C, he would choose the latter.

That in no way implies a downgrading in the severity of climate change.

Why is he seeking a more pragmatic approach? Because there is now so little money designated for climate change mitigation and it has to stretch further than ever before.

He has not changed his mind at all just I’m his focus on what we can do to help people.

Astonishingly, Gates goes so far as to point out that cold — not heat — is a far greater threat to humanity, writing, “surprisingly, excessive cold is far deadlier, killing nearly ten times more people every year than heat does.”

He even noted some of the ways the obsessive focus on lowering greenhouse gas emissions has negatively impacted the very groups climate alarmists have warned would suffer most due to rising global temperatures.

This is true. The alarmists have kept poor countries from developing gas and coal power plants, that have
kept their countries from prospering and progressing into the future.

When did Gates say global warming or anthropogenic climate change would "lead to humanity’s demise”?

Oh, wait, Gates never said any such thing.


Gates' 2025 approach is a shift in strategy to focus on human welfare. The "lead to humanity’s demise” claim is a straw man.

The timing is certainly interesting. His old company, Microsoft joined the rest of the tech industry in betting big on AI and OpenAI.

They are gonna need a lot of electricity and power to run all those LLM data centers.

I'm sure that's just a coincidence. 😉

Rising sea levels will ultimately threaten our low lying coastal cities. This is an economic issue, not an existential one. Pretending the issue doesn't exist only makes it more expensive to deal with in the long term.

8000 years of sea levels


Average sea level rise since 1880
https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-level-rise

Increased coastal flooding in last 20 years
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-coastal-flooding

Local sea level rise, mm/year, as measured by GPS

Source?

He just wrote a memo that tried to do too much. He mix climate, poverty, and health in one package: diluting his point and opening up to attack. That’s a failure in presentation. It proves he's really bad at being a celebrity, perception is fundamental. He bundled, he blurred, and critics pounced. Epic fail. Bill Gates didn’t reverse his stance.

I heard someone say recently that the reason they know rising oceans is a hoax, is because, if it were true.

There is not a mortgage lender on the planet that would give a 30 year mortgage to anyone building on the beaches of the world.

If ever there was a badly written Bond villain… bill gates is that guy

How long before the Left changes their mind on Gates? He will now be known as the most dangerous man
on the planet.

Something has happened behind the scenes, as in him being warned by someone, because this is a person that has stated:

"There are too many [carbon entities] humans in the World"

Then proceeds to become the #1 landowner in America