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#BillGates Gave $3.5M to #ThinkTank Run by Climate Crisis Denier #BjornLomborg -according to U.S. tax records reviewed by @DeSmog
The donations made between 2017 & 2022, were listed on IRS 990 Forms filed by the #GatesFoundation. Those donations went to the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which describes itself as a “think tank that researches the smartest solutions for the world’s biggest problems, advising policy-makers, philanthropists how to spend their money effectively
https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg 

Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

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The center was created by Lomborg, who for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, broadcast media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe
Gates’ arguments have drawn outcries of dismay from some of the world’s top climate scientists, who have pointed out that “this memo is already being championed by those seeking to misinform & sow doubt about climate change
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and delay climate progress–up to and including the executive branch of the United States government”
But Lomborg is full of praise for the billionaire who has frequently donated to his think tank

“Revolutionary climate truth: @BillGates nails it,” he posted on X.
The Gates Foundation and the Copenhagen Consensus Center didn’t respond to a request for comment
The relationship between Lomborg and Gates goes back at least as far as 2014.

Deniers Celebrate Gates

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Shortly after the memo’s release, U.S. President Trump declared on his social media platform Truth Social: “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Gates finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, & for that we're all grateful MAGA!”
Trump is not alone in his celebration. Several long-time #climatecrisis #deniers are cheering the statement from Gates, including #RobertBradley of the Institute for Energy Research, a nonprofit that attacks
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renewables and criticizes decarbonization plans.

There is no greater threat to developing nations than the climate crisis,” #MichaelMann, #University of Pennsylvania climate scientist, told CNN in response to the Gates memo. “He’s got this all backwards”

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