Billionaire Bill Gates criticized Governor Greg Abbott in interview on Wednesday Abbott had said storm shows the 'Green New Deal would be a deadly deal' He later clarified that all sources of power generation in Texas had been affected Wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13 percent of the 30 to 35 gigawatts of total outages Natural gas, coal and even nuclear power plants were knocked out in deep freeze Gates blamed the historic winter storm on climate changed caused by humans On Thursday, power outages in Texas dropped below one million Hundreds of thousands still remained without power or safe drinking water