{"id":20789,"date":"2017-01-30T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20789"},"modified":"2017-01-30T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:00:19","slug":"bill-gates-warns-against-denying-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/bill-gates-warns-against-denying-climate-change.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates warns against denying climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bill Gates warns against denying climate change<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Bill Gates warns against denying climate change:-<\/strong> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder joined friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett for a question-and-answer session with students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cCertain 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,\u201d Gates said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The planet needs to find reliable, cheap and clean energy, &#8220;the innovations there will be profound,&#8221; Gates said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Despite not knowing what the Trump administration\u2019s goal will be in terms of funding for research and foreign aid, Gates said he holds hope for the future. He said artificial intelligence is the new frontier in innovation and said that if were a student today he would pursue computer science or biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Venture capitalism and the willingness to take chances on something new has provided a great deal of opportunity in the U.S., Gates said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cThat\u2019s something that other countries have tried to duplicate and they have, in small part, but not nearly as well,\u201d Gates said about the availability of investment capital for projects. \u201cThis willingness to take risks, the idea that if you &#8230; fail, it\u2019s not a mark of shame.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2017\/01\/29\/gates-warns-against-denying-climate-change\/97214936\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/bill-gates-warns-against-denying-climate-change.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates warns against denying climate change Bill Gates warns against denying climate change:- 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. 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