Now that Bill Gates claims that global warming is no longer that important: what does climate expert Wim Thiery (VUB) think about this?

For years, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned about the disastrous consequences of global warming. He wrote a book about it and spent millions to do something about it. Today, on the eve of the climate summit in Brazil, the billionaire is making a surprising U-turn. “The climate is no longer our biggest problem and that is good news, because the doomsday scenarios are wrong.” What does Gates base himself on and is his new reading correct? We present his most important statements to climate scientist Wim Thiery (VUB).

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