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Commentary: There are no quick-fixes to climate change even if Bill Gates says so Toggle share menu Advertisement Commentary: There are no quick-fixes to climate change even if Bill Gates says so Technology has to be part of the solution, but will not be a magical remedy after centuries of excessive carbon emissions, says MIT economics professor Daron Acemoglu. Bill Gates, Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures as he speaks during t...

Two numbers may frame the future of the world’s climate: 51 billion and zero. Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates stressed both figures during an online Harvard Science Book Talk. Fifty-one billion tons of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere each year. Zero is the number the planet needs to reach by the year 2050 to avoid worldwide climate catastrophe, Gates told viewers on Monday night. “There are points at which when the corals die off, they never come back,�...

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Bill Gates Is Reaching for the High-Hanging Fruit on Climate Bloomberg 1 day ago Peter Coy © Photographer: Michael Cohen/Getty Images North America NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation speaks onstage at 2019 New York Times Dealbook on November 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times) (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- “Do the Hard Stuff Too” is Point #6 in Chapter 10 of Bill Gates’...

More than 200 years ago a volcanic eruption on Mount Tambora in Indonesia enveloped the planet with swirling dust and sulphurous gases, blotting out the sun, leading to what is known as ‘The Year without a Summer’. Average temperatures plummeted. There were severe food shortages in Europe and China. The strange weather, as Amitav Ghosh mentions in his book, was also the setting for Mary Shelley to begin writing the first great work of science fiction, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus....

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist tells NPR "I don't think the understanding of climate change is nearly as deep as it needs to be."

There was a sad irony when I recently became aware of the planned biogas facility for Seaford to take on the burden of the waste of chicken farming all around the region. You see, I had just finished reading Bill Gates’ book, “How to Avoid a Climate...

Bill Gates Proposes To Technofix Climate Change but Underplays the Role of Nature 11/03/2021 Bill Gates has written a remarkable book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (2021): it cuts through the smog and tells us how technology can help overcome the climate crisis. It is a succinct summary of climate science (chapters 4 to 8) that segues into offering a suite of interventions and solutions (chapters 9 to 12) that are sure to be a ...

When one of the world’s wealthiest individuals writes a book on avoiding climate disaster – and suggests changes we all need to make to our lifestyles – it is easy to be cynical. But the high-profile intervention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates in the climate change debate should be welcomed. This is not just a highly intelligent wealth creator, but somebody who, arguably, has unique access to information and insight. Furthermore, his Gates Foundation has achieved impressive results in ta...

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