I wish someone was working as hard on climate change as Gates is on preventable disease in the developing works. But I do not wish that Gates worked any less diligently on the problems he's chosen. Global poverty and disease in the developing world are, particularly in the way they stifle the potential of a huge fraction of the world's people, root causes of most of our other big problems.

Yep. That was a pretty conspicuous omission from his list.

That and coordinated approaches to significant problems, whether at the national or international level. I'm seeing less rather than more success at both scopes.

If you're interested mainly in at-a-glance summaries, this might fit:

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Why it must be him? Why not me? Why not YOU?