Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists

Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists

Gates recently called for a ‘strategic pivot’ in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve.

Joe Romm: “Even Gates was fooled” (Doomism at Penn)

“Bill Gates has been rightly slammed for his anti-scientific memo calling for shifting our focus away from ‘near-term’ emissions cuts. Tragically, that shift could cause the very doomsday scenario he dismisses.” (Joe Romm, below)

Bill Gates Gets Mugged by Reality

Bill Gates admits a shift in his views on climate change, urging a focus on human welfare.

Will: Bill Gates’s climate rethinking is a gift to the world

Bill Gates has had second thoughts. This has provoked scorn from those whose first and only thoughts about his subject — climate change — are secondhand thoughts.

Moore: Bill Gates got mugged by reality

Gates still endorses the need for communal action, but he has disassociated himself from the increasingly radical and economically destructive dictates from the green movement. For that, the Left has tossed him out of their tent as a "traitor."

Bill Gates's Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot?

Devotees of the Church of Climate are in uproar after mega-donor Bill Gates turned heretic and conceded humanity is set to thrive under climate change. But is his conversion all it's cracked up to be, asks Tilak Doshi.