Has BIG OIL hijacked COP30?

Bill Gates recently offered us some of his 'wisdom' on the subject of climate change. Donald Trump immediately seized on Gates' 17 page essay, saying he had "just won the war on the Climate Change Hoax". So, has this little exchange fatally undermined the COP30 conference in Brazil, or was it dead on arrival anyway? Help support this channel's independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com Reference Links Letter to delegates from André Aranha Corrêa do Lago https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/10.03.25_final_vision_cop_30.pdf Bill Gates - Three Tough Truths about Climate https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/three-tough-truths-about-climate Gates hits back at Trump's misreading of his memo https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/bill-gates-climate-change-memo-b2858293.html DeSmog report on Gates' contributions to Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/ IPCC AR5 report (2015) https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/05/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full_wcover.pdf UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025 https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/48854/EGR2025.pdf Climate Analytics report https://ca1-clm.edcdn.com/publications/G7-what-good-looks-like-update.pdf The Lancet - Countdown 2025 https://lancetcountdown.org/2025-report-visual-summary/ WMO CO2 report https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/carbon-dioxide-levels-increase-record-amount-new-highs-2024 Financial Times article https://www.ft.com/content/e0c4031d-1207-421a-a8c8-1515d4f5fe95 https://planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/19/scientists-statement-on-state-of-cop30-negotiations-november-19-2025/ Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators Simon Clark: youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys ClimateTown: youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Dr Gilbz youtube.com/@DrGilbz zentouro: youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience Sarah Karvner: youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ Our Changing Climate : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ