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Commentary: Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is celebrated by sceptics and frustrating scientistsCommentary: Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is celebrated by sceptics and frustrating scientists
Channel News Asia ^ | 09 Nov 2025 | Ryan M Katz-Rosene

Posted on 11/11/2025 11:18:55 AM PST by nickcarraway

The tech billionaire and philanthropist has hit a nerve by calling for a “strategic pivot” in climate strategy, says this academic.

Shortly before COP30 talks begin in Brazil, tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has launched a “narrative grenade” into the discourse of climate politics by publishing a lengthy memo calling for a rethink of how the climate crisis is framed and addressed. Gates calls for a “strategic pivot” in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve. Both social and traditional media were ablaze with erroneous assertions about Gates’ supposed reversal of opinion on climate change.

Despite reaffirming support for ambitious decarbonisation, his letter is being celebrated by climate sceptics while angering some climate scientists. United States President Donald Trump weighed in, writing: “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.” This is false. Gates makes no such admission. In fact, he specifically writes that “climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries.” He emphasises that “every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.”

Gates goes further, calling for major investments into global health and development (particularly on vaccines), and expresses continued support for pursuing net zero carbon emissions – all of which seems to fly in the face of Trump’s climate and foreign aid agenda.

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1 posted on 11/11/2025 11:18:55 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Bill Gates has got the climate cult really upset. Bill Gates has got the climate cult really upset.


2 posted on 11/11/2025 11:23:47 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: nickcarraway
thanks
thanks
3 posted on 11/11/2025 11:23:58 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: nickcarraway

He was all for green everything until he learned his AI world domination scheme would need all the power it could get. Then, suddenly, green power didn’t matter anymore.


4 posted on 11/11/2025 11:35:40 AM PST by Fido969
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To: nickcarraway

He was all for green everything until he learned his AI world domination scheme would need all the power it could get. Then, suddenly, green power didn’t matter anymore.


5 posted on 11/11/2025 11:36:42 AM PST by Fido969
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To: nickcarraway

The Chaos Merchants are unhappy. Boo effing hoo


6 posted on 11/11/2025 11:40:35 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

He bought a whole lot of farm land...maybe reality set in?
What is the next big con?


7 posted on 11/11/2025 12:00:19 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: nickcarraway

Alchemy Science...


8 posted on 11/11/2025 12:02:11 PM PST by dpetty121263
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Bill Gates owns 275,000 acres of farmland...largest farm owner in the nation....and it is farmed...


9 posted on 11/11/2025 12:03:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Didn’t Ted Turner own more than that?


10 posted on 11/11/2025 12:11:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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“land”....but it was a mix...not “farmland” like Gates.


11 posted on 11/11/2025 12:31:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway

Cause lot of folks making lot of money off this hoax


12 posted on 11/11/2025 2:44:05 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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