Bill Gates: Hotcoldwetdry “will not lead to humanity’s demise”

Has he come to his senses, or, some ulterior motive?

Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change

In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.

Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.

Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.

He’s not wrong on that. How much has been utterly wasted in doing cult things, which could have been used for, say, real environmental concerns? How much time has been wasted? Resources misdirected?

The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.

“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”

Obviously, this is not going over well in Cult World

And Mann is tame compared to some of the stuff I’m seeing, calling Gates a traitor, saying he should be executed, and more.

Gates denied his new position represents a reversal from his past stances. He said in Tuesday’s essay that the world must continue to support its past efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions.

If you read it, Gates has not stopped being a card carrying member of the cult, he’s just realizing that the cult needs to be less cult, and there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on. It’s the whole theory vs practice argument: most cultists/Warmists are happy to yap about Doing Something in theory, but, when it is their own lives and money they aren’t interested in practice.

Will Bill apologize? Or, is there something else going on?