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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