Bill Gates Does Suprising About Turn On Climate Alarmism!

Written by Dr. Matthew Wielicki on November 1, 2025. Posted in Current News

In a surprising twist, Bill Gates—one of the most prominent funders and voices in the climate alarmism movement—has released a memo just ahead of the imminent COP30 UN jolly, dialing back his decades-long rhetoric on ‘climate change’ as an apocalyptic threat

Titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate” Gates now says that while (in his opinion – Ed) ‘climate change’ poses challenges, especially for the poor, “it will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

Source: https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate

This marks a stark departure from his previous doomsday warnings, and it’s already causing rifts in the climate community, with figures like the fraudster Michael Mann publicly expressing disappointment and accusing Gates of undermining the narrative they’ve pushed for years.

Mann, known for his hokey schtick graph and aggressive defense of climate catastrophism, took to X to blast the memo, calling it “bull$hit” and insisting that ‘climate change’ remains the existential crisis they’ve long claimed—it’s just “still coming down the line.”

His post, shared on October 28, 2025, highlights the growing tension: the grifters are starting to turn on each other as the data refuses to cooperate with their predictions.

As I’ve argued extensively on Irrational Fear, the real “threat” was never modest warming of 1.5–2°C itself.

It was always the hyped-up feedback loops: supercharged hurricanes, catastrophic sea-level rise flooding islands, disrupted food systems leading to famine, and billions migrating as climate refugees.

Yet, none of this has materialized.

In fact, the latest IPCC report’s Table 12.12 (from AR6, 2021) paints a clear picture: white cells dominate categories like tropical cyclones, mean precipitation, fire weather, and more, indicating no detectable emerging signal or trend in either direction.

The data simply isn’t there to support the hysteria.

I’ve covered this in depth in previous posts:

• Is ‘Climate Change’ Causing Increased Numbers of Refugees? – Spoiler: No, predictions of 200 million climate migrants by 2050 were wildly exaggerated.
• Greening Earth & Booming Crops – Despite claims of agricultural collapse, crop yields have soared with CO2 fertilization and moderate warming.
• The Sea-Level Lie: Exposed – Recent studies debunk the alarm over accelerating rises; rates remain steady and manageable.
• Hurricane Hype Busted: Data Disproves Climate Supercharging Claims – Deaths from storms are down, and intensity trends show no “supercharging.”

All these existential threats live in hypothetical models built on shaky assumptions, as I’ve discussed repeatedly. Now, even Gates seems to be reading the room, or perhaps my Substack, and acknowledging the grift is up.

But why the shift? There’s no new data justifying it; observations haven’t suddenly changed.

This could be Gates seeing the writing on the wall, or a UN salvage operation to pivot from failed climate claims to real issues like poverty and health.

Meanwhile, the focus on ‘net zero’ emissions has backfired spectacularly on the world’s poorest.

For the first time, less people in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to electricity today than in 2000, thanks to UN and international policies refusing to fund ‘fossil fuel’ projects under the guise of the ‘climate crisis’. Source: statista.com/statistics

Liberty Energy’s comprehensive report,Bettering Human Lives (2024), lays this out brilliantly—credit to Secretary of Energy and former CEO Chris Wright for championing ‘net zero poverty’ over virtue-signaling emissions targets.

The goal should be abundant, affordable energy to lift billions out of poverty, not funneling trillions into ineffective “solutions” that enrich institutions while delivering nothing.

As Wright argues, energy poverty is the real crisis, and ‘fossil fuels’ remain essential for development.

This reversal is a clear sign that the narrative is crumbling. They’ve lied for decades, and now the infighting begins.

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