Bill Gates changes mind on Global Warming.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures, now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” in a stunning reversal.

Gates, 70, who has sunk billions of his vast fortune into initiatives ostensibly meant to combat global warming, penned a lengthy blog post this week urging a shift away from the “doomsday outlook” many climate activists have adopted to terrify nonbelievers into seeing things their way.

Democrats were ready to bankrupt the world over global warming.

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@ItsMeMorgue says

I'm guessing that's because the least intelligent among his detractors saw that previous deadlines passed without the bad thing happening, like all the rainforests disappearing by 2000,

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.