The New Profits

Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Meg Whitman and several other notable execs have launched a “more than $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.”

+ Such private (and likely profitable) efforts to limit climate change could differ greatly from America’s near-term public stance on the matter. On Sunday, Donald Trump reiterated his doubts about human-caused climate change: “Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows.” (Update: Somebody knows.) Trump’s beliefs on the matter are much more than rhetoric. Consider this from The Guardian: “The heads of Donald Trump’s transition teams for NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, as well as his nominees to lead the EPA and the Department of the Interior, all question the science of human-caused climate change.”