The fight against climate change appears to be officially dead

opinion

Bill Gates speaks at the annual Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in Manhattan, New York City, on Sept. 24.

When Microsoft co-founder and global philanthropist Bill Gates recently released a 17-page memo recalibrating his position on climate change, he knew controversy would ensue. Still, it is difficult to overstate the impact of his observations, and the alarm, disappointment and bewilderment it has caused.

In some quarters, though, Mr. Gates was met with pure elation. “I (we) just won the war on the climate change hoax,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social-media platform Truth Social. “Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely wrong on the issue.”

That is certainly not what Mr. Gates said or conceded to. But he did call for a “strategic pivot”