Three Tough Truths About Climate?
- Rick Bonetti
- 1 day ago
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Updated: 22 hours ago
On October 27, 2025, just ahead of the November 2025 COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates issued a memo: Three Tough Truths About Climate advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that efforts to reduce emissions are “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.” Is he right?
Covering Climate Now and Sammy Roth, who writes the newsletter Climate-Colored Goggles, convened a panel of leading climate scientists (Kim Cobb, Zeke Hausfather, Katharine Hayhoe, and Daniel Swain) to dissect the Gates memo and respond to journalists’ questions about it. Read the transcript here. Or you can watch the video on YouTube here.
Katharine Hayhoe is "an atmospheric scientist who studies what climate change means to us here and now, and how our choices will determine our future. She is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University; she also serves as climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance." Follow @KHayhoe on X and on Facebook for frequent updates on the latest climate change science, and for more in-depth discussions. Read Katharine's 2022 book Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Read a December 29, 2021, New York Times by David Marchese interviewed Katherine Hayhoe: An Evangelical Climate Scientist Wonders What Went Wrong
Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist at Berkeley Earth
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kim Cobb is the Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and, Professor at Brown University.
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