The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency

Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions are “diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world.” Is he right?

Covering Climate Now and SEJ member Sammy Roth, who writes the new newsletter Climate-Colored Goggles, have convened a panel of leading climate scientists to dissect the Gates memo and respond to journalists’ questions about it.

Panelists:

• Kim Cobb, Brown University
• Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth
• Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University
• Daniel Swain, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sammy Roth of Climate-Colored Goggles will moderate.

When: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 @ 4:30 pm US Eastern Time

Register here.