Bill Gates disavows climate hysteria in sudden shift

Billionaire Bill Gates on Tuesday broke from climate alarmists, calling on them to tone down climate change hysteria.

Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he wrote in a lengthy blog post. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”

The Microsoft co-founder disavowed “the doomsday outlook” that makes regular predictions—roughly every 12 years—of a climate-induced apocalypse.

“[I]t’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world,” he said, adding that “[s]ometimes the world acts as if any effort to fight climate change is as worthwhile as any other.”

Gates argued that “health and prosperity” are the best defenses against climate change, and urged societies to focus on human welfare instead of temperature.

The blog post was published a day after UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that countries must “change course” and “make a dramatic decrease of emissions as soon as possible” to deal with the “climate crisis.” The UN’s annual climate change summit, COP30, will be held in Brazil next month.

Gates in 2021: ‘Use regulation’ to force fake meat adoption

The sudden shift is a surprising turnaround for Gates, who has invested millions in manufacturing fake meat to supposedly reduce carbon emissions. Climate alarmists claim that since livestock excretions emit greenhouse gases, eating less meat will reduce those emissions.

Gates has even called on Western governments to enforce the consumption of fake meat through regulation.

“I don’t think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat,” he told MIT Technology Review in 2021. “I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”

Aligning with the Trump administration

The billionaire’s calls to ease the climate hysteria more closely align with the Trump administration, which has forcefully rejected the climate change narrative. In September, President Trump rebuked the United Nations at its General Assembly for pushing the “green scam.”

“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”

The Trump administration and the GOP have been taking a closer look at Gates’ ventures. In June, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department announced its plan to defund Gavi, a global organization co-founded and co-funded by the Gates Foundation dedicated to pushing vaccines worldwide. And on October 27th, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened a probe into the Gates Foundation for allegedly steering funding to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies.

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