Elon Musk: Bill Gates is “not strong in the sciences.”

“I just wanna say, Billy G is not my lover.”

“You'd think that someone like Bill Gates, who started a technology company that's one of the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft, you'd think he'd be really quite strong in the sciences.”

“But actually, he is not strong in the sciences.”

“The reality of the whole climate change thing is that you've just had people who say it doesn't exist at all, and then people who are super alarmist saying Florida is going to be underwater in 5 years.”

“And obviously neither of those two positions are true.”

“The reality is, you can measure the carbon concentration in the atmosphere.”

“At some point, if you continue to take billions, eventually trillions of tons of carbon from deep underground, and transfer it to the atmosphere and oceans, you will change the chemical constituency of the atmosphere and oceans.”

“You just literally will.”

“And the reality is that, in my opinion, we've got at least 50 years before it's a serious issue.”

“I don't think we've got 500 years, but we've probably got, you know, 50. It's not 5 years.”

“The concern level for climate change is on the order of 50 years. It's definitely not 5, and I think it probably isn't 500.”

“So really, the right course of action is actually just the reasonable course of action, which is to lean in the direction of sustainable energy.”