Column By Mike Bibb
After years of warning that climate change threatened humanity, Bill Gates now insists it ‘will not lead to humanity’s demise.’ His latest stance, uncovered by the New York Times, marks a dramatic reversal from the same billionaire who championed the costly green policies that helped drive up energy prices and burden working families. Gates’ sudden change of tone isn’t about new science — it’s about avoiding accountability for the consequences of the agenda he helped fund. Bill Gates is trying to flee the blaze he helped ignite. There’s no new science, no new revelation — only a billionaire trying to rewrite his role in the destruction he financed. Gates knows his green crusade has crushed working families with unaffordable energy costs, but now that the political winds have shifted, he wants to act like the voice of reason. The American people won’t forget who helped light the fire in the first place.
Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director of Power The Future, Oct. 28, 2025
To keep the topic as simple as possible—if that’s possible—let me begin by saying I’ve been confused about this subject ever since I first heard about it.
Forty years ago, or more, it was called “Global Cooling.” Then, for some reason, the folks in charge of this stuff decided it was really “Global Warming.”
I suppose the Earth was cooling before it was warming. Cooling from ancient volcanic activity and now warming again because of the internal combustion engine.
Not sure how various “Ice Ages” factor into the equation. There’s not much discussion on those documented events.
Anyway, eventually the brilliant kids must have thought the global cooling/warming catch phrases weren’t sophisticated enough — didn’t have the scientific panache a topic of this worldly magnitude should have.
Something a little more bedazzling was needed to convince people that an imminent catastrophe was about to happen if steps were not immediately taken to slow and reverse our dependence upon “fossil fuels.”
Also known as coal, oil, and natural gas. You know, the primary ingredients powering most societies’ economies.
Especially ours.
There was an additional concern that had to be thrown into the problem-solving discussion: How to make money from this ruse while at the same time persuading previously nonchalant citizens of the dangers of continuing to drive SUVs, setting the home’s cooling and heating thermostat too high or low, and reducing reliance upon an electrical grid that was already severely overloaded.
“What should we call this scary new world we’re about to enter?” must have also been a subject of review. “We’ve already tried global cooling and warming and unleaded gas.”
“What’s next?”
“I’ve got it!” a super-brilliant university professor with multiple PhDs proclaimed. “Why don’t we just call it Climate Change?”
“Bravo!” former Vice President and inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, applauded. “That covers everything under the Sun and under the Earth… and maybe on Mars, too!”
“Plus, down the road, there might even be a Nobel Prize in it,” Bill Gates reminded everyone.
So, we’ve progressed to electric vehicles that need to be plugged into an electrical outlet, giant gaudy windmills generating electricity when the wind blows, acres and acres of environmentally unfriendly solar panels producing electricity on a cloudless day, World Climate Conferences, ferrying attending celebrities in their private jets, and the media’s steady drum beat that the latest hurricane spinning over from Africa is, somehow, an abnormal occurrence being influenced by the Atlantic Ocean rising 1/100th of an inch because of melting polar ice caps.
But wait, is the tide really turning when one of the wealthiest guys on the planet, and a staunch promoter of the climate change mantra, suddenly informs us the highly ballyhooed swindle won’t “lead to humanity’s demise.”
I must be missing something. Surely, William Henry Gates’ dramatic admission that things are really not as environmentally perilous as we’ve been led to believe is more of a public confession that he, and similar-minded friends, have been less than honest with us.
Considerably less than honest. Actually, downright misleading.
Now, Gates has experienced a “strategic pivot”—a shift from focusing on rising global temperatures to concentrating on humanity’s hunger, poverty, and disease.
Here we go again — same song, different verse. This tune is coming from a liberal billionaire who’s been busily buying up thousands of acres of U.S. farmland. To date, Billy’s scooped up about 268,984 acres, with 242,000 of those related to agriculture. (See the above picture.)
The question is, why is a super-wealthy computer and chip maker suddenly interested in corn, soy, and beans?
Necessity may be the “Mother of Invention,” but deception is the “Father of Lies.” No matter how cleverly it may be disguised, passionately presented, or endorsed by individuals of importance.
The latest bogus green Climate Change revelation is no different. Like previous prevarications, spinners of this myth will reinvent the wheel and begin selling the fairy tale of the certainty of the next cataclysmic event approaching from the unknown, if something isn’t done quickly to avert the calamity.
Luckily, the Biden Administration was busily handing out billions of “New Green Dollars” to help relieve the stress.
Of course, these billions of bucks only helped to boost the national debt further into the trillions — about $38 trillion.
Scant mention of who’s going to pay for it.
And only the wisest, most revered, are capable of saving us from the danger, regardless of how ridiculous or illogical it sounds.
If there’s influence to gain and money to be made from the constant dispensing of confusion, you can be sure a smooth-talking con artist will be promoting the illusion.
Legendary showman P.T. Barnum had it figured out over a hundred years ago — There’s a sucker born every minute and two shysters to take him!
Presently, we’re simply witnessing an updated version — with all the bells and whistles-of the same ages-old scam Eve told Adam.
“Dude, wake up and take a little bite of this delicious apple. Won’t hurt anything. Besides, it’s full of vitamin C, which equates to 9-13% of God’s recommended daily allowance. So here, eat it before you stupidly alter the course of history.”
“Yes, dear,” Adam meekly obliged. “Just don’t bring that snake over here again. I’m barely recovering from the T. rex mauling a few months ago. I thought those damn things were supposed to be sleeping this time of year.”
Rolling her eyes in exasperated annoyance, Eve caustically replied, “Adam, you ignorant buffoon. Of all God’s creatures, he could have chosen to pluck a rib from; I had to get stuck with your dumb ass. Now, shut your face, eat the apple, and then rake the leaves in the front yard. Don’t make me tell you again, or it’ll be hell to pay!!!”
What followed became the Biblical basis for marriage counseling. And maybe Bill Gates’ sudden interest in apple orchards, wheat fields, and John Deere tractors.
