Bill Gates Admits There’s Lots of ‘Climate Exaggeration’

Could the Microsoft co-founder be having a change of heart?
Bill Gates Admits There’s Lots of ‘Climate Exaggeration’
Bill Gates speaks onstage at the TIME100 Summit 2022 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, on June 7, 2022. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME
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Multi-billionaire Bill Gates appeared to reverse course on some of his previous climate change remarks and suggested that some activists have made alarmist predictions.

“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” said Mr. Gates, who helped found Microsoft and is now a multi-billionaire philanthropist, in a recent event. “The climate is not the end of the planet. So the planet is going to be fine.”
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