3w ago

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

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3w ago

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

www.desmog.com /2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/

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Just imagine how hard they can think now with all that money
Dumb tank?
That's odd and not on brand ... I wouldn't be surprised if the think tank misrepresented itself to get the funds
- Yeah, misrepresenting everything including themselves and facts about climate change is what Bjørn Lomborg's think tanks DO, and Gates would have known that if he'd taken just 10 minutes to research them before showering any of them with ill-gotten gains.
  
  Has anyone here read the article?
  The foundation donated, not the man. The foundation’s finances are not exactly simple with thousands of organizations getting funds from them at any given time.
  Where money is distributed is not a decision specific to Gates. It’s based on the leadership decisions in the foundation to issue grants. The direction of the granting process is at a high level guided by the board of the foundation, that includes Gates, but those directions are at the “focus on medical research grants into Malaria, AIDS, and TB”, not at the individual dispersal level.
  The delegation of authority rules would likely place a 3.5 million dollar decision on a VP level in the foundation to approve.
  
  And to clarify, he will have taken at least 10 minute to research them before showering them with ill-gotten gains.
  He knows who he is supporting. The question for us is, why is he supporting them?
And the best they could come up with was “Just tell people to worry less about the climate”?
Sounds like that think tank isn’t really worth it.

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