Has he come to his senses, or, some ulterior motive?
Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.
Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.
Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.
He’s not wrong on that. How much has been utterly wasted in doing cult things, which could have been used for, say, real environmental concerns? How much time has been wasted? Resources misdirected?
The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”
Obviously, this is not going over well in Cult World
And Mann is tame compared to some of the stuff I’m seeing, calling Gates a traitor, saying he should be executed, and more.
Gates denied his new position represents a reversal from his past stances. He said in Tuesday’s essay that the world must continue to support its past efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions.
If you read it, Gates has not stopped being a card carrying member of the cult, he’s just realizing that the cult needs to be less cult, and there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on. It’s the whole theory vs practice argument: most cultists/Warmists are happy to yap about Doing Something in theory, but, when it is their own lives and money they aren’t interested in practice.
Will Bill apologize? Or, is there something else going on?
Gates has cozied up to King Donald, but also realizes that it’s a lost cause.
The Earth will continue to warm, a result of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, a breakdown product of burning high carbon coal, gas and oil.
We will just have to adjust as Gates claims.
No, global warming will not end humanity, but we will have to adapt.
Care to offer proof that it’s all “atmospheric CO2” from man’s activities?
Even you could look it up.
Atmospheric CO2 has increased from about 280 ppm in 1900 to over 420 ppm today. As you know as a scientist, there are 3 isotopes of carbon, 12C (99%), 13C (rare and preferred by plants), 14C (rare, radioactive, 5700 year half-life).
Hundreds of millions of years ago, plants incorporated atmospheric CO2 to form the carbohydrates that made up the plants! The incorporated 14C would have long decayed by now and sure enough atmospheric 14C concentration has decreased as if the “new” CO2 came from the fossil fuels.
Another fallacy offered as “proof” by the Rimjob.
He does like to ignore other natural causes for the warming.
Keep trying, kid.
Professor J, what you implied would only be a correlation, not proof of causation. Another couple of steps needed.
Perfesser Jill,
You seem not to understand the concept of evidence. What is your explanation for the isotopic data (14C, 13C)?
You repeat the nonsense you read on Science Denier blogs.
Do you have evidence of a god(s), much less proof?? Do YOU deny the existence of God??????????
Jill,
Let me ask you this.
Does smoking cigarettes cause lung (or other) cancers? What is your evidence, if you do?
Do the anti-Covid vaccines reduce the severity and/or spread of Covid?
Has biological evoluton occurred, is occurring?
When was the Earth formed?
Wasn’t the distinguished Mr Gates the one who said we had to solve the problem of cow farts?
there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on
Things that actually kill people or at least destroy fertility
Funny that Gates change of heart coincided with the hundreds of billions cut from USAID by the current administration.
It’s a little different tune when one starts having to shell out their own money.
Bwaha! Lolgf Losers!
MAGA47 – It Was Never About The Climate!
Funny that the USAID budget was only $34 billion for this year. Hardly “hundreds of billions”. Gates HAS hundreds of billions, LOL.
Funny when Rimjob never checks sources.
–USAID Funding Overview for 2025
As of 2025, USAID has obligated a total of $112.1 billion, out of which $77.6 billion has already been spent. The agency is expected to disburse an additional $34.5 billion for ongoing and upcoming projects. —
Lying liar, as always, when CumBreath makes up sources.
What, no citation? What a surprise.
Oh so now Rimjob wants others to cite their sources. LOL.
Anyway…
— The proposed budget for USAID in 2026 includes a significant reduction, with an 83.7% cut to base discretionary funding, dropping from $58.7 billion to $9.6 billion. This drastic decrease reflects the Trump administration’s shift in priorities and restructuring of foreign assistance programs.
USAFacts —
Hope that helps, fatso. Bwaha!
Puppies,
Providing sources and links for Jeff is futile.
1. Jeff only reads his talking points from The Party (TM).
2. Any source you cite won’t be good enough, since it doesn’t agree with Jeff.
3. This is a blog, not the New England Journal of Medicine. Whatever you say is good enough for me just because you say it. You are not a confirmed liar and Party activist so people here can take you at your word.
Just get a kick out of proving Rimjob wrong with any chance I get.
Mocking that idiot then adding in a little humiliation of him is a bonus…
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have given away more than $100 billion through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gates has committed to giving away an additional $200 billion over the next 20 years.
Great! Perhaps they will spend most of it in the United States.
Of course, there might be some questions about this, because Mrs Gates divorced her husband in 2021, due to her concerns over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and while Mr Gates has not remarried, he has a new girlfriend.
Jeff Bezos also engaged in charitable giving . . . when he was married to MacKenzie Scott Bezos. Then the idiot dumped her for some tart whose name I can’t remember. The former Mrs Bezos got around $33 billion in Amazon stock in the divorce, and she’s been giving away billions in philanthropic moves, while Mr Bezos has been spending his money on yachts and other lavish stuff with Lauren Sanchez — yeah, now I remembered her name — at his side.
I was impressed with Mr Bezos buying The Washington Post from the Graham family, who could no longer afford the money-losing operation, but now he’s pushing to have the newspaper at least break even. If you buy a newspaper these days, you’d better have multiple billions, because you’ll be losing money every year. Patrick Soon-Sheung bought the Los Angeles Times, but he’s a paltry, single-figure billionaire, his newspaper has been losing money as well, and Dr Soon-Sheung has recently been making moves to try and stop the hemorrhaging of money.
I’ve said before that if I had Mr Bezos money, I’d buy and fix The Philadelphia Inquirer, but I wouldn’t do so if all I had was Dr Soon-Sheung’s — or President Trump’s — money.
Conservatives do not like/support the implications of human-caused global warming, so they have had a campaign of science denial for a few decades.
You started by denying it was even warming. You now admit that it’s warming, but deny that CO2 from our burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause.
Relax. You’ve won. The Earth will continue to warm until an equilbrium is reached between incoming and outgoing energy. How warm at equilibrium?
Earth’s natural equilibrium temperature, without a greenhouse effect, is about -18C, which is too cold for life as we know it. The current average surface temperature is about 15C due to the greenhouse effect, a dynamic process of energy absorption and emission. If the concentration of greenhouse gases were to double from pre-industrial levels (~ 600 ppm), the temperature increase at equilibrium could be between 2C-5C.
Our millionaire from Missouri wrote:
The Secretary-General has already said that the Paris climate agreement has been blown past, and that it’s “inevitable” that we’ll see a 1.5ºC increase, so we’re already pushing the 2º C lower end of the equilibrium point you gave is.
But let’s say it’s 5ºC, which is 9ºF. People in Pennsylvania and New York and New England will start installing more air conditioners, and parts of Canada and Russia which aren’t very good for agriculture will start becoming more able to produce. We’ll adapt to those changes, because adaptation is what people do!
Not to worry. We’ll all be long dead by the time it hits 5°C and our descendants will be forced to adapt in spades!!!
Our atoms will be recycled into the atmosphere, rice, manure, lizards, vultures, other humans, fake leather and chickens. Statistically, at least one of the 7 x 10e27 atoms from your rotting corpse will likely end up in the DNA of Supreme Global Governor Mei Guadalupe Fatima Aaliyah TamiaX7 Musk-Maduro-? VX!
But who knows, by the time it hits 3°C the global authoritarian gubmint will stop it.
A 5°C increase in global temperature would cause catastrophic and irreversible problems for human civilization and the planet’s ecosystems. This level of warming would trigger dangerous climate tipping points and lead to a “hothouse Earth” scenario.
Consequences for humans-
Widespread displacement: Global sea-level rise could reach 19–22 meters (62–72 feet) in the long term, displacing millions of people from low-lying coastal cities and nations. Coastal metropolises such as New York City, Shanghai, London, and Miami could be flooded.
Severe food and water shortages: Agricultural failures would become widespread due to droughts and extreme weather. In tropical regions of Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Central America, major crop yields could fall substantially. The melting of Himalayan glaciers would dry up rivers that supply billions of people with water.
Health crises: More extreme heat waves would increase heat-related illnesses and deaths, putting a severe strain on healthcare systems. Shifting climate patterns would also lead to the expansion of diseases into new areas.
Refugee and security crises: Mass migrations would occur as billions of people flee newly uninhabitable regions, causing conflicts over scarce resources. Some richer countries would likely become “fortress states,” worsening geopolitical tensions.
Consequences for the planet’s systems –
Irreversible ice loss: The polar ice caps, including Greenland and large parts of Antarctica, would melt, contributing to drastic sea-level rise. The loss of reflective ice would also amplify global warming in a feedback loop.
Release of frozen methane: The melting of permafrost in the Arctic would release vast stores of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. This would accelerate global warming in a devastating feedback cycle.
Ecological collapse: Many ecosystems would fail completely as species go extinct at a rate 1,000 times higher than at any point in recorded human history. A 5°C rise would create a hot, unstable climate more suitable for dinosaurs than humans.
Ocean changes: The ocean would absorb more carbon dioxide, causing increased acidification and damaging or killing coral reefs and other marine life.
Extreme weather: Higher temperatures would cause more moisture to evaporate into the atmosphere, resulting in more frequent and intense storms, hurricanes, and heavy rainfall events. This would also worsen droughts in other regions.
Ecosystem failures: Warming temperatures would shift climate zones, pushing many species toward extinction. Wildfire incidence and severity would increase dramatically, causing widespread forest die-off.
TL:DNR.
Learn some basics about editing if you insist on C&P others, Rimjob.
Might want to add the sources also because we know you didn’t compose any of the post.
“Consequences for humans…”
No, alleged consequences for humans
Solid critique, girlfriend!!
No one seems to want to mention that Hates also says he expects “science to solve it”
What would I do if I had Jeff Bezos money?
1 – Buy The Philadelphia Inquirer, and fix it, I know it will always lose money, but I’d be able to afford the losses. I would exercise some editorial control to make sure the newspaper published all sides, not just the woke bovine feces they do right now.
2 – Build factories throughout eastern Kentucky, to provide jobs for the people living there, and raise their standards of living. I would mandate frequent drug tests for all employees, so the people in the region who wanted those jobs would have to stop using drugs, or never get those jobs.
3 – I’d pay off the debts of the Diocese of Lexington, with the provision that all priests and deacons be seriously investigate, to make sure they weren’t f’ing kids, to keep the diocese from being sued again.
4 – I’d give a recurring grant to the Estill County Food Bank, my current charity of choice.
Dana,
A worthy list.
1. You are at least realistic about managing your losses on that.
2. One doesn’t build factories in order to hire employees. One hires employees to work in your factories. The factories must exist to produce products that the market demands. This is something the communists with their “workers owning the means of production” get wrong (among all the other things they get wrong, like mass murder). Without the market demanding the product, the drug-free workers sit around the factory playing cards… just like the old Soviet Union.
3. The diocese will gladly take your money, but you have no say in how they spend it. The people they owe will also gladly take your money. Then a whole new generation of people will notice “hey, those guys got money now”. My personal opinion is that the parishioners should have stopped making donation the minute they discovered those donations were going to pay off victims instead of to the work of the church that they intended.
4. Food banks have different results from one place to another. In a country that already has 10 different food assistance programs, it is hard to see why these even still exist. Research shows that people use them to supplement their lifestyle so they can sell their SNAP benefits for cash. The church food pantries tend to do a better job keeping it a charitable endeavor and not a self-licking ice cream cone. Poor People need food -> create food bank -> people see free food given away -> Food banks cry that “people are going hungry so donate more”.
The problem with Bezos money and Gates money is that they literally cannot give it away fast enough. There is just too much of it and there is more every day. So naturally politicians and foundations line up to help them spend it.
We mere humans, in our 75 year lifespan, live in a universe some 13,800,000,000 (13.8 billion) years old!! Yet, we are likely the only species in the entire universe to contemplate existence!! The total size of the universe is unknown – and could be infinite!!
Our Earth has existed about 4,500,000,000 (4.5 billion) years. Vertebrates appeared about 550,000 years ago. Humans (Homo sapien) have been around for about 300,000 years. Human “civilization” only 12,000 years (The Holocene epoch).
Look how far we’ve come in just 12,000 years. From a few million humans then to more than 8.1 billion of us today.
Our 75 year existence limits our perspective of even the 4.5 billion years of Earth much less the universe.
J-you created quite a word-salad just show that you couldn’t answer the question.
Jill,
You had a question? What is it?
The evidence to show the warming is solely from man’s CO2
And that it’s a “crisis”
How much of warming results from the addition CO2?
What constitutes a crisis is a matter of opinion. Jamaica’s opinion is that it’s a crisis.
Unfortunately, global warming is a long-term problem that will not be solved instantly once every MAGAt is persuaded.
Please read up on what a 5°C likely brings. Worth the risk?
But relax. You’ll be dead by then. Let your descendants worry about it.
“Solid critique.. “
Yes, and much less than solid attempt at refuting it!