The news that philanthropist Bill Gates is pivoting away from climate change alarmism to focus on technological improvements and improving health outcomes for the poor, tracks with consistent trends in public opinion.

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten says “a lot of people will agree with Bill Gates” because the number of people who are worried about climate change “has not really moved over the last 36 years.”

He reported:

“You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to know that these numbers are not particularly high. Top issue facing United States, climate change. It was 3% in 2021, 2% in  an average of polls in 2023. And this year the average of polls: two.  One, two. It is very, very low on the list of priorities. I was trying to count it out in the Gallup poll and basically, it was so low down, you know, I was counting all the different issues I almost lost track. It was like 15th or 20th.”

Amazingly, that’s after a third of a century of relentless doomsday media propaganda warning about climate change – much of it financed by left-wing pressure groups like the Bloomberg Foundation. Americans are smarter than the left thinks.

For one-tenth the cost of climate change initiatives, we could have provided every family throughout the world with safe drinking water and reliable electric power.  Hopefully, Bill Gates will direct his $75 billion foundation to help do just that.