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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 the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 25, 2018. (Photo: REUTERS...

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,” Gates said. “This is acidifying the ocean, and all the aqua ecosystems die off as that acid leve...

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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’s new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. ...

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. Today, climate engineers inspired by the sun-dimming properties of atmospheric particles are counti...