Bill Gates Calls on UN to Pivot Funding From Climate to Health Care

Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates speaks at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization conference in London on June 13, 2011. Paul Hackett/AFP/Getty ImagesBill Gates has called on the United Nations to make a “major strategic pivot” from what he termed its “doomsday view” of climate goals toward alleviating poverty and funding vaccines.If given a choice between eradicating malaria and a tenth of a degree increase in warming, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria. People don’t understand the suffering that exists today,” Gates told reporters during a roundtable discussion on Oct. 28.