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It's a stunning juxtaposition (especially given the stakes). As, too, when you noted the timing of his memo coinciding w/ a supercharged hurricane then devastating Jamaica. If you wrote of what's unfolding as fiction, an editor might chastise you for being too over-the-top.
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michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13d
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Yes, I noted this in my commentary for @thebulletin.org a week ago: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
excerpt from linked article: There is no better example than Bill Gates, who just this week redefined the concept of bad timing with the release of a 17-page memo intended to influence the proceedings at the upcoming COP30 international climate summit in Brazil. The memo dismissed the seriousness of the climate crisis just as (quite possibly) the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in human history—climate-fueled Melissa—struck Jamaica with catastrophic impact. The very next day a major new climate report (disclaimer: I was a co-author) entitled “a planet on the brink” was published. The report received far less press coverage than the Gates missive. The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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It's a stunning juxtaposition (especially given the stakes). As, too, when you noted the timing of his memo coinciding w/ a supercharged hurricane then devastating Jamaica. If you wrote of what's unfolding as fiction, an editor might chastise you for being too over-the-top.
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michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13d
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I think we as a field would actually be happier if we all collectively admitted that things are very bad right now, instead of pretending that everything is fine, and that all of us will somehow be the lucky ones.
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#Faustianclimatebargains
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#BillGatesmemo #KidsGaze
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Excerpt: For these people, and you, and everyone else, Gates could have written "in 2021, Sri Lanka banned all synthetic agrochemicals". But he didn't. Instead he wrote "one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers."
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Watch "The #BillGates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency" on YouTube
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Newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/live-event...

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Why I'm writing about #climate & culture - by #SammyRoth
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The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency
YouTube video by Covering Climate Now
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November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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#TimeCapsule2076 #KidsGaze
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The world’s largest survey on climate change is out – here's what the results show | UNDP Climate Promise
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November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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“If you look around the world right now, climate change is directly undermining human dev goals, poverty eradication & health goals. You just have to look at the disruption from the climate-supercharged Hurricane Melissa to see an example of that”
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Bill Gates is just plain wrong about climate change – Fast Company
The logic is flawed, and built on a series of false trade-offs that ignore how interconnected climate and development goals are. Gates criticizes the “doomsday” view that climate change will “decim…
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November 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Watch "Will Steffen - The Anthropocene: Challenges of the Human Age"
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#WillSteffen: "The worst-case scenario could collapse modern civilization. That's the risk. That's not overblown. I can't put a probability on it, but I can tell you for sure..." (49:23)
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Emeritus Professor Will Steffen - The Anthropocene: Challenges of the Human Age
YouTube video by Affinity Intercultural Foundation
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November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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NYT: How Close Are the Planet’s #Climate #TippingPoints? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? (Published 2024)
Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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#BillGates Has a Point
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"With over $100 billion to his name, Mr. Gates is arguably one of the least appropriate people to police...His memo also glossed over the possibility of runaway warming within our lifetimes & the destruction of nature."
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076
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NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/o...

Spoiler Alert — It's *Energy*
Carl Sagan quote from a 1995 Charlie Rose interview. NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/clean-energy-electricity-poverty.html NYT: Want to End Poverty? Focus on One Thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/opinion/clean-energy-electricity-poverty.html
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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"The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google -- have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout." 🎁
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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076
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(Perhaps, realistically, it's a bit more both/& rather than either/or, however point taken as to the failures of tech oligarchy...)

Washington Post: What if we need spiritual revival, not technology, to address climate change
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November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa
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#TimeCapsule2076
2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic
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"We are hurtling towards climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human driven alterations to the climate are no longer future threats. But are here now. This unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction and unsustainable economic systems and misinformation..." 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink | BioScience | Oxford Academic https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa #CarlSagan
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"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear precription for disaster." Carl Sagan
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points https://weatheire.com/news/climate/2025/10/30/major-report-warns-planet-approaching-tipping-poi
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#HurricaneMelissa #climate
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Major report warns planet approaching tipping points
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October 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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#Climate #TimeCapsule2076
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Bill Gates Calls for Redirecting of Climate Funds to Global Health - GreekReporter.com

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weatherwest.bsky.social Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 11d
I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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#ConservativesKidsGaze
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We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg
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A screenshot of the now archived piece, co-authored by both Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg, and titled, "We're not reaching the Global Goals. What now?" We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now? | Bill Gates https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175906/https://www.gatesnotes.com/Global-Goals-Op-Ed
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM