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Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com)

Reader JoshTops shares a USA Today report: Bill Gates warned against denying climate change and pushed for more innovation in clean energy, during an event Friday at Columbia University in New York. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder joined friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett for a question-and-answer session with students. "Certain topics are so complicated like climate change that to really get a broad understanding is a bit difficult and particularly when people take that complexity and create uncertainty about it," Gates said. The planet needs to find reliable, cheap and clean energy, "the innovations there will be profound," Gates said. In December, Gates announced that he and a group of investors would invest more than $1 billion in Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a fund that aims to finance the development of affordable energy that will reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions.

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  1. Re:Confirmation bias by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your fake news propaganda sources at MotherJones and politifact show your bias right away.

    It is too bad you are so ignorant about the purpose of the Electoral College. Perhaps you should do some reading before commenting more. And, it is a screwed up NFL Playoff system too - those Steelers had more rushing yards and passing yards in the playoffs than the Patriots and yet they aren't in the Super Bowl. And those Cubs. They didn't win the World Series, they didn't score more during the entire series, so they are not "world champions."