Essay by Eric Worrall
The conspiracist ideation is strong with this one.
Al Gore wonders if ‘bullying’ Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate
Fiona Harvey and Oliver Milman in Belém, Brazil
Thu 13 Nov 2025 08.05 AEDT…
“[Trump’s] already doing a lot of damage [on the climate],” Gore said, in an interview with the Guardian at the Cop30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil. “Maybe the biggest harm he’s doing is to the United States itself, and one figure now illustrates it. China is now exporting green technology to the rest of the world that has a cumulative export value that is significantly higher than all of the fossil fuel exports from the United States to the rest of the world. And that trend is obviously accelerating quite dramatically.”
Gates, a philanthropist and founder of Microsoft, made waves around the world when he publicly argued for pushing the climate crisis down the international agenda, in favour of more focus on health issues.
“The idea of slowing down on climate again, every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands and said: ‘What in the world is he thinking?’” said Gore.
“When Trump was elected the second time, Bill fired most of his climate staffers and went to the White House and lavished praise on Trump, and then put out this series of statements last week that puzzled anybody who was really concerned about the climate crisis.”
Gore noted that the chiefs of many large businesses in the US fear reprisals from the US president if they disagree with him, saying: “It may be that he is really worried that Trump will bully him the way he has bullied other ultra-wealthy business people. It looks like it may be possible that he’s scared of Trump.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/al-gore-cop30-climate
These wild accusations demonstrate how intolerant the church of climate change has become.
Bill Gates at best made a qualified withdrawal from his previous climate alarmism.
Yet the knives came out almost immediately. Monbiot was an early starter, demanding Gates be stripped off his wealth, so the money could be spent how Monbiot thought it should be spent.
Al Gore is late to the party, but hardly alone.
If the climate faithful think nothing of flaming and shaming one of the world’s most powerful business tycoons, for stepping just slightly out of line, imagine how bad it must be for a climate scientist thinking of challenging the orthodoxy?
Actually we don’t need to guess what punishment is levelled at scientists who breaks ranks with the herd.
No wonder they mostly keep their heads down.
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Memory being what it is, I tend to forget the feeling of relief I had when this buffoon didn’t win election and become president. Perhaps the memory is just swamped by my relief about the failures of HRC and Kamala.
That’s true, he would have been terrible. But Bush Jr was terrible in his own way, which set the scene for Obama, who was amazingly able to speak in complete intelligible words after 8 years of strategery, misunderestimated, and edumacation. That led to Hillary throwing a tantrum over not getting her turn. Trump 1, Biden, Trump 2.
Gore would have changed everything in ways we can’t predict.
I’m so old I remember the left calling Dubya ‘Chimpy Bush’ and ‘Bushitler’ … anybody they don’t like (that doesn’t push their leftist-centered, mind-bending, demented, driven-by-the-devil-himself ideology) is labeled ‘hitler’.
And, lest we forget “Marxism Is a Cult of Power, Not an Economic Theory”
Marx bashers in general haven’t read Marx. Marx is a classical economist highlighting important drawbacks of Capital, accumulation of wealth , all classic issues also highlighted by Adam Smith et al. Marx concentrated on who owns the means of production and made that the most important political issue because industrialisation was increasingly causing havoc.
You can argue about whether his solutions worked or not.
But nowadays (and in the 50s) you only have to say ‘marxist’ and you are on par w Hitler.
Especially in the US. Or even ‘socialist’. For yr information: i am neither. I like investigating ideas and see what rings true.
Oh, and James Lindsay is both an idiot AND a moron. A self righteous little weasel..
So the accumulation of wealth is a drawback?
Marxism deals with economics and politically solves the problem of “class struggle” whereby the proletariat overthrow capitalism through revolution and acquire the means of production.
The corporate accumulation of wealth actually is,
ss they own your politicians,the CiA,the FED,the MSM so much that they control and decide everything.
(the only reason the Americans don’t feel it that much is that much of the investment happens in foreign countries)
So much that by now your country is crazy deeb indebted war & billionaire creating machine.
On a local and regional level capitalism works really well.
Marxism on the other hand is a Trojan Horse par exellence.
A killing machine (just like your MiC) pretending to be the philosophers stone.
While it makes some valid points about capitalism (you need to throw some real meat into the mix) it is inflammatory and destructive by design.
It operated from the getgo with devisive rhetoric later known as critical theory and after it became obvious that the classwarfare stick won’t work,
the soviets,right after taking over Russia, decided to switch from class to race-struggle for the USA.
In the end it’s all about Balance,
and there are enough countries in the world that did a better job economically without being Marxist.
Marx called for a revolution of the proletariat and he didn’t mean a polite cultural revolution.
But it would be “mostly peaceful”. /sarc
re: “Marx bashers in general haven’t read Marx.”
I think Thomas Sowell did, and here’s what he had to say –
“You can argue about whether his solutions worked or not.”
History says “Not”. A form of Marxism has been tried dozens of times all over the world, and all have failed. Millions died in the attempts during the
20th Century. See Stalin’s Holodomor, Mao’s Great Leap forward or Pol Pot’s killing fields as major examples.
As to James Lindsay, his 2020 book (coauthored with Helen Pluckrose)
“Cynical Theory” is well worth reading. It’s a in-depth look at critical theory and all of its (crazy) permutations.
Anyone who tries to say Marxism “just wasn’t implemented correctly” is both an idiot AND a moron.
Marx also didn’t have a model back in those days of philosophy. In today’s modern world we have models to get ahead with the publication mill and projected synthetic biases.
And most Marxists have read Marx, but lack the wit to understand him.
There is nothing classical about Marx. There may be something that Marx got right, but off my head I can’t think of any.
He has no idea how investment works, nor does he have even the slightest understanding of human nature, on which economics is built.
Industrialization wasn’t causing problems, those were all being caused by excessive accumulations of government power.
As to just going with ideas that ring true, that is probably the worst possible way to try and understand a subject. Everything the global warming alarmists believe, they believe because to their ignorant minds, they sound true.
When it comes to self righteous weasels, you should check out the nearest mirror.
“But Bush Jr was terrible in his own way,”
I don’t agree.
G.W. Bush was just as much a victim of the lies of the Leftwing Media as is Donald Trump.
The Leftwing Media smears every Republican president.
Basing your judgement on what they say will lead you astray.
I would take G.W. Bush’s presidency any day over any Democrat you can name, and most Republicans you can name.
I liked Oliver Stone’s movie “W”.
GW , just as his father were globalists to the core.
Playing alongside the Rockefellers,running the CiA and financing Hitler(UBC – where do you think bankrupted Germany and Thyssen got all the money) .
And his father & Cheney positioned Ukraine in that place it is today.
But as with Obama.
Some people are not willing to see the obvious.
It is a lie that US bankers financed Hitler.
They got the money from their own people, the way socialists always do.
Many US elites supported Hitler, but finance him, no.
As to the elites, elites all over the world, including France and Britain were also fans of Hitler and Mussolini. Elites have always look favorably on political systems that put them in charge.
“after 8 years of strategery”
and nucklear
and “I looked into Putin’s eyes and saw his soul”
Nuke-u-ler is how I recall the pronunciation …
Back in the days when we only accepted the choices they gave us. Now they are mad at us for not going along.
“Memory being what it is, I tend to forget the feeling of relief I had when this buffoon didn’t win election and become president.”
What a horrible thought!!! Just think about having this fanatic in control of the whole nation.
If you think Ed Miliband is bad, Al Gore would have been ten times as bad. I could see him outlawing fossil fuels completely with severe penalties for anyone using fossil fuels, and I could see Gore imposing censorship on the whole nation and probably declaring a national emergency over CO2.
Yes, God Smiled on us the day the election was settled and Gore lost.
We don’t want Gore anywhere near the levers of political power. He would abuse it as soon as he could. Worse than Obama and Biden, and that was bad enough.
We also missed some earth crossing meteors of massive size. Maybe he (Gore) will fly off to some cold distant reaches of the Ort Cloud so we can live another day.
Al has strong opinions, always wrong.
Bless his little heart.
AI (Alfa Lima) reminds me of AI (Alfa India), very predictable, almost robotic.
“Bless his little heart.”
That’s what my grandmother used to say just before she trashed someone.
Excellent!
It’s not fear of Trump, it’s the USAID cash that has dried up – easy to for Bill to pontificate with free tax payer money. However POTUS murdered that cash-cow so Bill would rather not spend his own cash on such silliness. That and he needs to prep for the Epstein papers coming out…where he is referenced substantially
Once the access to money dries up every activist eventually becomes Bill Gates.
Gore’s reacttion, like that of Monbiot, is to be expected. The first response of any fundamental religious movement is to burn the heretics believed to be guilty of apostasy. Climatism may be a new creed. But religious fundamentalism goes back thousands of years invariably with the same response by the clergy.
“Kill them all; God will recognize his own,” stated Arnaud Amary the Papal Legate. The Roman Catholic Church earned its reputation for intolerance. As has the Church of Climatism.
re: “The Roman Catholic Church earned its reputation for intolerance.”
Perhaps a simple, one-time-perusal of history informs that view.
Al Gore showed up again? I wasn’t aware he had anything to offer at COP.
All Al Gore has to offer is bluster and hot air.
That is all he has ever had to offer.
The “Inconvenient Truth” is Al Gore doesn’t know what he is talking about, and misleads and scares millions of people with his insane CO2 rhetoric.
People forget that Gates originally was the voice of sanity when it came to the impossibility of powering industrial civilization with wind, solar and batteries. It was his swerve into a “Green” “Transition” that was more puzzling. I rather think his return to sanity is driven more by the need for reliable energy to power AI data centers, an impossibility with wind, solar, and batteries.
True! This video predated Gates’ belated journey down the Damascus Climate Road, by over six years:
Huh. I wonder why the link to that little two minute youtube video didn’t work? Let’s try again, a different way:
Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind and Solar Energy, by Net Zero Watch
(click the Bold title link to watch the video)
“I rather think his return to sanity is driven more by the need for reliable energy to power AI data centers, an impossibility with wind, solar, and batteries.”
I think that is close to the truth.
As I have stated many a time; the entity known As Bill Gates has no autonomous personality. He is merely a flesh puppet for those who determine the agenda for all the various alphabet agencies.
Baal Getus is almost like an Alexa speaker, it suits in a corner looking like furniture, then it suddenly starts spouting carefully crafted sentences devoid of emotion or, indeed, experience of human life.
For those with some understanding of how large language models work, will understand when I say Bill is so far the high point of “AI” chatbots, and for the rest, Bill proves we have not yet built an artificial intelligence.
Have you heard the little robot try answer non-scripted questions?
I don’t think Algore is a dummy, he’s doing just fine thanks, and when he says things that sound dumb to me I have to imagine he was speaking to someone else.
That said, I can’t think of an aspect of Gore that I find superior to the same aspect of Gates.
Maybe public speaking? On a good night Algore’s grumbly pulpit voice is hard to outdo.
I remember his “No controlling legal authority” utterance once upon a time (regarding phone calls from the White House soliciting campaign contributions.) …
https://www.deseret.com/1997/3/9/19299447/controlling-authority-c-mon-gore/
Or Gore’s scream:
“They played on our fears!!!”
The one playing on fears is Al Gore.
I remember that too!
At COP 15 in 2009 Al Gore said, in prepared remarks, “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” You can hear him say it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI&t=10s
Al Gore Warns Polar Ice May Be Gone in Five Years ← click the title
On one hand, “some of the models suggest” that “there is a 75% chance” that it “could be” is a semantic mess. (The man’s prose is as muddled as his thinking.) So it could be argued that the “75% chance” part is meaningless because it is sandwiched between the “some models suggest” and “could be” parts.
But, on the other hand, he also said “some of the summer months“ (PLURAL!) and “completely ice-free” — an extraordinary claim. Do ANY models really suggest there’s a chance the Arctic Ocean could be “completely ice-free” for multiple months at a time? I don’t think so.
My favorite was Gore’s authoritative assertion that the Earth’s interior temperature is “millions of degrees.” That wasn’t a slip of the tongue. It was real, Nobel-laureate-level ignorance. His exact words were:
“…two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot…”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/16/gore-has-no-clue-a-few-million-degrees-here-and-there-and-pretty-soon-were-talking-about-real-temperature/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2d_a3dkXPM
How Hot Is the Core of the Earth ← click the title
I think most of the nonsense he says is due to ignorance and carelessness. He doesn’t know better, and doesn’t care enough to learn. His dishonesty consists, mostly, of pretending to understand things which he does not, and of speaking with pretended authority about them… just like an awful lot of other climate activists.
Sadly, the Left does not have a monopoly on Gore-level ignorance. For example, President Trump has repeatedly claimed that he will or has reduced prescription drug prices by 1000% or more. (A 1000% reduction in the cost of a $100 medicine would mean the pharmacy is now paying you $900 to take it off their hands.)
Pres. Trump again promises impossible drug price drop ← click the title, start at 54 sec
Yep they say crazy things, but I agree with most of Trump’s policies while Obama and the Cabbage patch I agreed with non of them.
Yes those are good examples. He was speaking nonsense, but he spoke it so well. Speaking such nonsense so powerfully and so convincingly is a skill most humans do not have.
Good one, harping on others’ ignorance, then you blithely fail at shoppers’ math:
Because of their utterly corrupt understanding of capitalism, Yanks now pay 10 times as much as most other countries, where the pharma companies still make obscene profits.
Now, if my meds cost 10 bucks, then suddenly only 1, it means I used to pay ten times as much, which is, obviously, 1000 percent.
Yes, yes, only 900 percent discount I know, make that pill 90 cents then.
Don’t question my maths, I spent many minutes in front of a shelf full of questionable detergents, trying to figure out how I save 410%. I have now cracked the code for you too.
The US pays more because the US has to pay for the whole worlds R&D,
Most other countries require pharma to sell their drugs at cost. That is, the cost to make them plus a small margin for profit.
If the companies don’t agree, the government invalidates the patent and allows any company that wants to, to make the drug.
As a result, the US is carrying the billions needed to create new drugs.
But like his buddy Bill Clinton, he’s a borderline psychopath
True also. To want that job, you might have to be.
“The idea of slowing down on climate again, every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands and said: ‘What in the world is he thinking?’” said Gore.
Every year the International society of bunny whisker sharpening scientists released a thousand page report explaining how systematic underspending on bunny whisker sharpening is bad news for everybody. Why does nobody listen?
““The idea of slowing down on climate again, every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands and said: ‘What in the world is he thinking?’” said Gore.”
The key phrase here being “and respect”.
In other words, if you are a scientist who does not agree with Al Gore about CO2, he doesn’t respect you, and he doesn’t listen to you. The only people Al Gore listens to are scientists who have the same CO2 bias and agree with him.
There are a lot of scientists who don’t agree with Al Gore. You might not get that impression from the way Gore framed things. And, of course, that is deliberate on Gore’s part. He’s a snake.
China is now exporting green technology to the rest of the world that has a cumulative export value that is significantly higher than all of the fossil fuel exports from the United States to the rest of the world.
Gore, as with many Dems, has that knack of saying something so stupid that it would take four paragraphs to explain how stupid it is, and sounds intelligent to anyone who doesn’t stop to think it through (also many Dems).
Jasmine Crockett says equally stupid things but they defy explanation at all. Peak stupid.
Mamdami says impossible things will come true. He’s not stupid at all but he preys on PeakStupid^2
Josh Shapiro apparently bent the knee. Someone should remind Josh what happens to Jews who bend the knee to communists.
Don’t forget Word Salad Kamala. Her pontifications sound stupid, ignorant and unintelligent. Just think if our country was being governed by her interpretation of Venn diagrams.
Kamala spoke like somebody with very, very high education indeed, so high, she never bothered to develop a thought openly, but if you listen closely, she was letting off streams of buzzwords, specialist jargon of you will, a recap of the brilliant, brilliant I say, absolutely brilliant and deep, deep discussion she had yesterday with her best mates over candle-lit wine and so on.
You’re probably too stupid to understand such high things, as that other apall-atician said.
Bottoms up, Kamala dear.
every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands
Since he doesn’t respect the ones that didn’t by definition…
Interesting. Climate Realists throw up any time they hear Gore spew his lies.
Coincidence?
And they keep eating their hands?
It’s the cosy dinners with President Trump…Gates knows how turkeys feel around Thanksgiving and Christmas…
We agree, Biden is the real turkey…heck 1/2 of America and the media had no idea he had dementia 😉
Gore: China sells more green solar panels than the US sells oil
Trump: They should be orange.
Gore: No you idiot, green is how they work
Trump: I could put tariffs on them until them make them orange. They’ll be the biggest tariffs ever, no one has ever seen tariffs like these.
Gore: No amount of tariffs will change how they work you idiot
Trump: I’ll even put tariffs on them until they make them work at night. I can do anything with tariffs.
Gore: You can’t make them work at night no matter what tariffs-
Trump: Plus windmills, I will tariff them until they work when the wind doesn’t blow…
Gore: Splutter, that won’t work eith-
Mamdami: We will give everyone in New York free windmills and free solar panels
Crockett: I will pass a law that the windmills have to work when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
Gore: Well that won’t work either, but you could have batteries…
Mamdami: Free batteries.
Crockett: Or, we could shine spotlights on the solar panels at night.
Mamdami: Free spot lights
Crockett: And we can spin the windmills with giant fans
Mamdami: Free giant fans
Trump: I have to take a call, you three keep talking.
The only scientists Al knows are called, George Monbiot professor of strange opinions, and advisor to the BBC, Greta Thunberg, professor of gurning at TV cameras. Michael E Mann, professor of aisle nine at the university of Wegmans, and professor Antonio Guterres of COP insignificance, the whole bunch don’t count for much. His association with Professor Pelosi investigating nip and tuck, and Professor Warren, studying the tenuous link between native American Indians and unrelated families of European heritage don’t count at all.
That leaves Al with just his main advisor Professor Heinz Kerry. Kerry will help him persuade the world too much hot air is bad for the environment. They have decided to go on a world tour in their respective private jets to show how damaging and negatively impacting having too much time and money on your hands .can be..
I forgot about Kerry.
I believe Kerry had some uncomplimentary things to say about Bill Gates’ new CO2 position, too.
Imagine the conversation that goes on between Al Gore and John Kerry. Listening to them would warp a normal person’s mind.
I suspect climate science will never be mentioned, derivatives and stopping demons will predominate. Kinda mix between SpongeBob and Al Capone commisserating with a Mad Hatter with time on his hands.
Gore proves that money and political power cannot forever hide the truth.
Ha!
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Trump ‘broke’ another one!
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Joyous … and I voted for this.
I love to hear them squeal about Trump! 🙂
Conan –
From the article: “Gore noted that the chiefs of many large businesses in the US fear reprisals from the US president if they disagree with him, saying: “It may be that he is really worried that Trump will bully him the way he has bullied other ultra-wealthy business people. It looks like it may be possible that he’s scared of Trump.”
That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
And Bill Gates hasn’t backed off his belief that CO2 is a cause of problems, he just says CO2 will not be the end of the world.
Of course, Climate Alarmists like Gore want everyone to think CO2 will be the end of the world, so they attack Gates for saying different.
The Climate Alarmist movement is in disarray. All their predictions of climate doom have failed.
Trump has killed their momentum. And not a moment too soon! 🙂
re: “That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.”
And/or (more/most likely; the odds-on favorite) projection. It is what Algore (all one word) would have done … (Algore knows darn well how the ‘game’ is played.)
‘Did fear of Trump made Bill do a u-turn?’ is just a similar question to ‘did too much Bourbon make Al look red?’ Anybody’s guess. And those Chinese exports are fuelled by burning coal, lots of it.
Mr Gore must be losing a ton on his “green” investment portfolio.
Poor Al Gore, still trying to stay relevant in a world that has already assigned him and his scientifically-proven-false book “An Inconvenient Truth” to the dust bin of history.
Al should stay at home and fondle his ill-gotten 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
But I guess he needs to search out funders for himself at COP30 to continue his rich lifestyle.
Putting Al Gore and his “statements” into proper context, some WUWT might appreciate this testimony he made to the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee in 2009:
“But every penny that I have made, I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge. And, Congresswoman, if you’re… if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me.”
— sources: https://canadafreepress.com/article/gore-lies-to-congress-about-personal-finances
and
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/al-gores-new-9-million-ocean-view-villa-in-ca
The above quote from Gore comes despite the facts that Gore and his wife, Tipper:
— just one year later would spend $8,875,000 to purchase a 1.5 acre Montecito,CA, area Italian-style villa with a ocean-view and that has five bedrooms, six fireplaces, nine bathrooms, a swimming pool, spa and water fountains
— already owned a 20-room, 8 bathroom, Nashville estate, where he burned through 19 times as much electricity as the average U.S. household in 2007.
— already owned a home in Virginia
— already owned a home in Tennessee.
More good news. Gates hasn’t even joined us and already he is helping.
The lumphead Gore claimed that we wouldn’t see snow again. America about to be buried in the stuff.
No thread concerning/discussing Algore (all-one-word) would be complete without referencing his failed Doomsday Clock (as shown by Rush Limbaugh) expiring in January, 2016 –
The history behind it – https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/03/04/algore-said-the-world-had-10-years-left-so-rush-counted-the-days/
To answer the headline: It makes me giddy to think so.
At least Tennessee has recovered well from the Gore disease.