Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures , now says climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” in a stunning reversal.

Gates, 70, who has sunk billions of his vast fortune into initiatives ostensibly meant to combat global warming, penned a lengthy blog post this week urging a shift away from the “doomsday outlook” many climate activists have adopted to terrify nonbelievers into seeing things their way.

Bill Gates, who has spent decades warning about climate change, is softening his tone. Getty Images

“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he w

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