Friday's CBS This Morning promoted the alarmist claims of Bill Gates, not objecting to his incendiary assertion that the response to fighting global warming will have to be greater than the deadly COVID pandemic. The coronavirus has killed 2.3 million people worldwide. That should have been pointed out. But it wasn’t.
CBS previewed this Sunday’s 60 Minutes in which the Microsoft founder will be allowed time to promote his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. After 60 Minutes correspondent and CNN host Anderson Cooper Cooper offered up this softball, “[y]ou believe this is the toughest challenge humanity has ever faced,” Gates responded, “Absolutely. The amount of change, new ideas, it's way greater than the pandemic. And it needs a level of cooperation that would be unprecedented.”
Again, 2.3 million dead from COVID. How many directly connected to climate change? Cooper didn’t point this out. Instead, he discussed process on whether the changes needed are possible. Not whether they reach the level of a deadly pandemic:
COOPER: That doesn't sound --
GATES: No, it’s not easy. But hey, we have 30 years.
COOPER: It sounds impossible.
Co-host Tony Dokoupil lamented we "still haven't figured [climate change] out." Co-host Gayle King lauded, "Glad Bill Gates is speaking back up it. This is good. He knows a lot."
None of this should be surprising from CBS. On April 25, 2020, CBS touted the upside to the killer pandemic. Co-host Anthony Mason hyped, “Ahead on this Earth Day, we'll show you the rapid and amazing environmental improvements taking place during the pandemic. What it tells us about creating a healthier planet.”
On December 2, 2020, CBS brought on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Dokoupil parroted alarmist talking points: “Why is human kind at war with nature?”
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CBS This Morning
2/12/2021
8:44 AM ETTONY DOKOUPIL: Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is on an urgent mission to fight climate change. In fact, he spent more than a decade investigating the causes and effects of global warming. And Gates is now about to release a new book on the subject, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. 60 Minutes contributor Anderson Cooper spoke with Gates in his first interview about the book. Take a look.
ANDERSON COOPER: You believe this is the toughest challenge humanity has ever faced?
BILL GATES: Absolutely. The amount of change, new ideas, it's way greater than the pandemic. And it needs a level of cooperation that would be unprecedented.
COOPER: That doesn't sound --
GATES: No, it’s not easy. But hey, we have 30 years.
COOPER: It sounds impossible.
GATES: We have more educated people than ever. We have a generation that's speaking out on this topic. And you know, I got to participate in the miracle of the personal computer and the internet. So yes, I have a bias to believe innovation can do these things.
DOKOUPIL: Every time we do a piece on climate change, I think that it was 1989 that climate change was first on the front page of The New York Times as an issue for humanity. And here we are. All these years later. Still haven't figured it out.
ANTHONY MASON: So much work still to do.
GAYLE KING: Glad Bill Gates is speaking back up it. This is good. He knows a lot.
DOKOUPIL: He knows a lot. He knows people. He's got resources.
KING: Knows a lot of stuff.
MASON: The man who warned about a pandemic five years ago.
DOKOUPIL: He's on top of things. You can watch more of Anderson Cooper’s interview with Bill Gates this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Called How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. That’s the book and it’s on book shelves next week.
