Tl;dr: Gates still thinks climate warming is a major threat, just not to the extent of using it as a doomsday threat of "guaranteed destruction for all of humanity."
I find it fascinating that climate change deniers will often say absolutely anything to discredit Bill Gates, but the second he says something that could even be misconstrued as support for their side, all of the sudden he's a trustworthy authority for their beliefs.
The catastrophic predictions made by many who want to address climate change - implying actual human extinction - left the door open for such accusations. Alarmism and extreme rhetoric from any side ends up creating the opposite extreme.
But what’s weird to me is the effects are apparent now. Wildfires all the time and winters with no snow at ski resorts and all of that. Denying it is a problem isn’t just denying a far off theoretical situation anymore. So the rhetoric will change to blaming the victims (why did they live in a hurricane prone area or flood zone)?
> Even Bill Gates has admitted that it's not that concerning.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bill-gates-memo-climate-chan...
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5585562-bill-...
Tl;dr: Gates still thinks climate warming is a major threat, just not to the extent of using it as a doomsday threat of "guaranteed destruction for all of humanity."
I find it fascinating that climate change deniers will often say absolutely anything to discredit Bill Gates, but the second he says something that could even be misconstrued as support for their side, all of the sudden he's a trustworthy authority for their beliefs.