by Audrey Streb
The Daily Caller
Bill Gates wrote Tuesday that while he views climate change as “serious,” it is not an existential crisis that will “lead to humanity’s demise” — a stance that several energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation marks a sharp departure from Gates’ previously alarmist rhetoric on the issue.
Gates published a book titled “How To Avoid a Climate Disaster” in 2021, and while reflecting on the work in a blog post on Feb. 14, 2021, he wrote that he’d become convinced that “to avoid a climate disaster, we have to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.” Gates asserted in his Tuesday letter that while climate change poses a threat, it will “not be the end of civilization,” emphasizing the importance of affordable, reliable energy and continued innovation — glossing over his previous climate alarmism, a point several energy experts who spoke to the DCNF highlighted…
“So I urge that community, at COP30 and beyond, to make a strategic pivot: prioritize the things that have the greatest impact on human welfare,” Gates wrote on Tuesday. “It’s the best way to ensure that everyone gets a chance to live a healthy and productive life no matter where they’re born, and no matter what kind of climate they’re born into.”
Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute told the DCNF that “Bill Gates has downgraded the title of his 2021 book from ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’ to ‘How to Avoid Serious Consequences.’ Even so, his views on climate are of little consequence. Climate realists have always ignored him [and now] climate alarmists will now have no use for him.”
