Bill Gates spent the last decade as the Left's ATM machine.
His billions bankrolled every radical left-wing group that would cash a check.
And Bill Gates threw the Left a curveball that had everyone asking this question.
Gates admits climate change won't end civilization after spending years warning it would
For years, Bill Gates positioned himself as a prophet of climate catastrophe.
In 2021, he published "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" and told CBS News that natural ecosystems would fail unless the world eliminated emissions immediately.¹
He compared the threat to landing on the moon and eradicating smallpox, calling it humanity's greatest challenge.²
Gates put his money where his mouth was. His Breakthrough Energy Foundation and the $77 billion Gates Foundation poured hundreds of millions into climate initiatives.³
Between 2020 and 2023 alone, Breakthrough Energy spent $267.4 million funding environmental groups and green energy projects.⁴
Now Gates just admitted the whole doomsday narrative was wrong.
In a lengthy blog post, Gates declared that "climate change will not be the end of civilization."⁵ He told reporters that people "will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future."⁶
Wait, it gets better. Gates admitted that the climate movement has been "diverting money and attention from efforts that will have more impact on the human condition."⁷
The billionaire who spent years funding groups that scream about existential threats now says resources should go to fighting malaria and poverty instead of cutting emissions.
When given a choice between eradicating malaria or preventing a tenth of a degree of warming, Gates told reporters he'd "let the temperature go up" to get rid of malaria.⁸
The foundation Gates built is crumbling under scrutiny
Gates funded some of the most extreme climate advocacy groups in America. His Breakthrough Energy Foundation handed out massive grants to organizations now revealed as partisan political operations masquerading as environmental nonprofits.⁹
The League of Conservation Voters received $5.5 million from Gates' foundation to elect Democrat politicians.¹⁰ The Natural Resources Defense Council grabbed millions while filing dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration over deregulation.¹¹ The Union of Concerned Scientists warns on its website that climate change is "one of the most devastating problems humanity has ever faced" — funded by Gates money.¹²
These groups pushed the exact apocalyptic narrative Gates now admits was overblown. They advocated for policies that drove up energy costs and killed American jobs while China kept building coal plants.
Gates bankrolled the hysteria, then quietly changed his tune when it became clear the doom-and-gloom predictions weren't materializing.
The timing of Gates' reversal is stunning. It comes just months after Trump's landslide victory and two weeks before world leaders meet in Brazil for COP30, the UN climate summit.¹³ Gates is now urging those leaders to ask whether climate money is "being spent on the right things."¹⁴
But here's what Gates isn't telling you. Microsoft is building AI data centers across the country that consume absolutely massive amounts of electricity.
These facilities need so much power that Microsoft signed a deal to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant just to feed its AI ambitions.
Suddenly the billionaire who spent years demanding everyone else sacrifice for the climate realizes he needs cheap, abundant energy for his own business.
What a coincidence that Gates discovered prosperity matters more than emissions right when his company needs to power thousands of servers running artificial intelligence.
And there's another problem Gates won't mention. Trump shut down USAID and cut off the federal spending spigot that funneled taxpayer money to left-wing nonprofits.
For years, Gates and other billionaires could leverage government grants to amplify their climate activism. Those groups Gates funded weren't just getting his checks — they were siphoning taxpayer dollars through federal agencies to push the same agenda.
That gravy train just derailed. Trump's making these organizations survive on private donations alone. No more using your tax dollars to subsidize their political operations.
Gates can't multiply his influence with federal funding anymore, so suddenly the whole climate crusade needs "refocusing."
Translation: Gates realizes Trump's re-election means the climate gravy train is about to hit a wall — his AI business needs reliable electricity that green energy fantasies can't provide, and he can no longer funnel taxpayer money through government-funded NGOs to push his agenda.
The research Gates now cites proves what conservatives have said all along.
Deaths from climate change drop by more than 50% when accounting for economic growth in poor countries.¹⁵ Cold weather kills nearly ten times more people than heat.¹⁶ Prosperity and innovation solve problems better than carbon taxes and green mandates.
Climate scientist Michael Mann immediately attacked Gates on social media, saying "there is no greater threat to developing nations than the climate crisis."¹⁷
Left-wing activists on Bluesky melted down over Gates' reversal, with one calling him a hypocrite whose "wealth is as bottomless as his hypocrisy."¹⁸
Their outrage makes perfect sense. Gates just blew up the foundation of their entire political movement.
For decades, climate activists have used apocalyptic predictions to justify economy-crushing regulations. Remember when Al Gore predicted in 2006 that we had ten years to save the planet? That deadline came and went. The predictions always fail, but the demands for control never stop.
They've demanded trillions in spending while demonizing fossil fuels that lifted billions out of poverty. Gates funded this machine, amplified its message, and gave it credibility.
Now he's pulling the plug. The man who wrote the book on avoiding climate disaster just admitted it's not actually a disaster.
The billionaire who flew around in his $70 million private jet burning 450 gallons of fuel per hour to lecture about emissions now says we should focus on real human suffering instead.¹⁹
Gates still hedges. He claims he offsets his massive carbon footprint with "legitimate carbon credits" and says climate investment should continue.²⁰ But his message is clear: The climate movement focused on the wrong things, wasted resources that could have saved lives, and oversold the threat.
Trump's America First policies prioritized real people over abstract global temperature targets. Voters rejected the climate extremism Gates bankrolled when they elected Trump in a landslide.
Now Gates is scrambling to reposition himself before his entire climate empire collapses — and before anyone notices his AI data centers need the exact kind of reliable, abundant energy his climate crusade tried to eliminate.
The billions Gates spent pushing climate hysteria could have fought malaria, improved agriculture in poor countries, and addressed actual suffering. Instead, that money went to political activists and lawsuits against American energy independence. All while Gates positioned himself to profit from the AI revolution that requires massive amounts of electricity.
Gates spent years telling the world the sky was falling. Turns out he was wrong the whole time.
¹ Thomas Catenacci, "Bill Gates, Who Spent a Fortune Warning About 'Climate Disaster,' Now Says It 'Will Not Be the End of Civilization,'" Washington Free Beacon, October 28, 2025.
² "Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions to reducing human suffering," PBS News, October 28, 2025.
³ Catenacci, Washington Free Beacon.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ "Bill Gates calls for 'strategic pivot' in climate change fight away from curbing emissions," NBC News, October 28, 2025.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ Catenacci, Washington Free Beacon.
⁸ "Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus," PBS News.
⁹ "Bill Gates' Climate Outfit Is Now Among the Top Green Grantmakers," Inside Philanthropy, August 2, 2023.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ Catenacci, Washington Free Beacon.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ NBC News, October 28, 2025.
¹⁴ "Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus," PBS News.
¹⁵ "Bill Gates says a 'doomsday' outlook on climate is driving people to focus on the wrong things," Fortune, October 28, 2025.
¹⁶ "Bill Gates reverses climate change stance, offers hope for the future after years of 'Doomer-ism,'" One America News, October 28, 2025.
¹⁷ "Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change," CNN Business, October 28, 2025.
¹⁸ Catenacci, Washington Free Beacon.
¹⁹ One America News, October 28, 2025.
²⁰ Ibid.
