US EditionTrump Reacts to Bill Gates' U-Turn on Climate Change Ahead of COP30 Summit, Says ‘Won the War’
Bill Gates softened his warnings, stressing adaptation and innovation over apocalypse while Trump claims victory and continues rolling back environmental policies.
- On Wednesday , United States President Donald Trump declared victory over the 'climate change hoax', posting on Truth Social that `Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue`.
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shared a lengthy memo earlier this week softening past warnings and saying climate change will not lead to humanity's demise, urging focus on innovation and adaptation.
- Trump has long maintained scepticism, calling climate change `the greatest con job ever` at the UN General Assembly last year, and since January he has rolled back green policies with Big Oil backing his 2024 campaign.
- Days before COP30 summit in Brazil, Gates softened warnings and shifted focus toward adaptation and innovation, which could shape world leaders' agenda.
- By tying climate response to poverty reduction, Gates suggested reducing disease and poverty would better equip the world's poorest populations to cope with warming, though he acknowledged critics might call him hypocritical over his carbon footprint.
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Bill Gates bends the knee on climate change
The Microsoft mega-billionaire's new letter on climate change claims to tell "tough truths". What it really does is display the same easy cowardice that has come to define America's corporate leadership in their dealings with Donald Trump.
As Bill Gates walks back climate change threats, an apology is in order
After decades of making people feel guilty for simply living, the billionaire philanthropist now admits that he had the science wrong all along and mankind is not perched on the precipice of destruction due to a warming planet. For the past half a century or so, earth's inhabitants have lived under the illusion that cataclysmic climate change would soon decimate civilization. And the evil culprit was man himself. Every single human activity - fr…
In a memo, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warns against climate negativity. His own view of climate change is in flux.
Bill Gates, who has been an important apostle of climate religion for many years with almost missionary zeal, seems to turn away from his faith. Instead of giving warnings about the alleged threat of apocalypse, he suddenly speaks of moderation, adaptation and pragmatism. What's going on there? When Bill Gates appeared somewhere on television in recent years, warnings of the alleged threat of climate apocalypse were not far away. But after decad…
Declares victory in the "war on climate fraud". The background is that Gates has admitted that humanity is not about to be wiped out.
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