All over the world, mouths were dropping and eyeballs were popping.  Bill Gates has changed his approach to the climate change issue.

This week Gates flipped a switch from funding climate change initiatives, to urging the world’s decision makers to put their attention and their funding towards issues such as fighting poverty and illness.:

Click here to read what Bill Gates said in his own words:

Bill Gates’ is no climate scientist but his about face has brought the issue to the forefront.  This could lead to a breakthrough in the way average people approach climate change.

For decades we’ve been told “the science is settled”.  Serious scientists don’t make such claims, but the statement has halted millions of conversations that might otherwise have informed.  That was the intezntion.

Now that the issue has been opened, it’s a great time to take in this recent interview from the Joe Rogan Experience.

If you have anxiety over climate change or if you know young people who are overwhelmed by concern, this is a must see.  If you’re simply someone who simply appreciates the pursuit of knowledge and you’ve never heard from Dr’s Linzen or Happer before, you will be amazed at this conversation.

From the Joe Rogan Experience

Richard Lindzen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. William Happer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University. Doctors Lindzen and Happer are recognized for questioning prevailing assumptions about climate change and energy policy.

MxM News

Billionaire Bill Gates — long one of the loudest voices warning of climate catastrophe — now says the world has bigger problems to worry about. In a 17-page memo released Tuesday, the Microsoft co-founder called for a “strategic pivot” away from the obsessive focus on reducing global temperatures, urging leaders instead to prioritize fighting poverty and eradicating disease in the developing world. “Climate change is a serious problem, but it’s not the end of humanity,” Gates wrote.

Gates, 70, argued that global leaders have lost perspective by treating climate change as an existential crisis while millions continue to suffer from preventable diseases like malaria. “If I had to choose between eradicating malaria and preventing a tenth of a degree of warming, I’d let the temperature go up 0.1 degree,” he told reporters ahead of next month’s U.N. climate conference in Brazil. “People don’t understand the suffering that exists today.”

For decades, Gates has positioned himself as a leading advocate for global climate initiatives, investing billions in green energy projects and warning of the dangers of rising emissions. Yet his latest comments mark a striking reversal — and a rare admission that the world’s climate panic may have gone too far. “If you think climate is not important, you won’t agree with the memo,” Gates told journalists. “If you think climate is the only cause and apocalyptic, you won’t agree with the memo. It’s a pragmatic view from someone trying to maximize the money and innovation that helps poor countries.”

The billionaire’s change in tone is sure to raise eyebrows ahead of the U.N. conference, where climate activists plan to push for new emissions targets and wealth transfers from developed nations. Critics have long accused Gates and other elites of hypocrisy for lecturing the public about fossil fuels while traveling the globe on private jets. Now, Gates himself appears to be distancing from the doomsday rhetoric he once helped spread, effectively admitting that humanity faces more immediate moral imperatives than the weather.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Stunning Climate Change pivot from Bill Gates. Poverty and disease should be top concern.