PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour and former Vice President Al Gore continued their combined efforts to get the American people to subscribe to climate alarmism on Wednesday's Amanpour and Company as the duo lamented the lack of interest from the Trump administration in the ongoing COP30 summit in Brazil. At one point in the interview, Amanpour would drop all pretense of journalism and praise Gore for being “really prescient” and standing “the test of time.”
Amanpour teed up a clip of the two of them from June 6, 1992, by declaring, “I remember first meeting you, first interviewing you when you represented the Senate delegation at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, just before you were tapped to be vice president. And I know all those calls were coming through to you, but you wouldn't answer any of my very pointed questions. But here's what you did tell me about American leadership on this issue. Just take a listen.”
Blaming former President George H.W. Bush for impending climate doom is all the rage on the left these days, because in the clip Gore lamented:
I believe, and many others do, that the task of saving the Earth's environment will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world, especially after the Earth Summit. I believe deeply that the United States must be in a leadership position in this post-Cold War era.
And all of this mishandling of our country's relationship to the rest of the world here at the Earth Summit by the White House with its divisions, all of that has hurt our country's ability to be a leader on these important issues. And we should be. We have the record as a country to do it if we just stop backtracking on environmental protection.
After the clip, a star-struck Amanpour continued, “Wow. I mean, first of all, we both look so young. But secondly, you were really prescient. That bit stands the test of time. But, you know, so the question is, if America—well, you rate America where it is in terms of leadership right now, because for all I know, the Chinese are accelerating way beyond America on the green technology.”
Gore responded by giving a long, rambling speech that began, “Yes, and it's tragic that Donald Trump and his fossil fuel polluter allies are shooting America in both feet, metaphorically, where the economy is concerned. You know, here's a new statistic that's just out, Christiane. China is now exporting to other countries more green technology like electric vehicles and windmills and solar. The value of their green tech exports now far exceeds the exports from the United States to the rest of the world of all of the fossil fuels, all of the coal and gas and oil.”
That is extremely misleading. Gore cherry-picked his energy sources. US energy exports, including unmentioned petroleum products, totaled $318 billion in 2024, whereas China exported $180 billion in green technology. Of course, Christiane “truthful, not neutral” Amanpour did not correct the record.
Here is a transcript for the November 12 show:
PBS Amanpour and Company
11/12/2025
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: But I remember first meeting you, first interviewing you when you represented the Senate delegation at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, just before you were tapped to be vice president. And I know all those calls were coming through to you, but you wouldn't answer any of my very pointed questions. But here's what you did tell me about American leadership on this issue. Just take a listen.
AL GORE [6/6/1992]: I believe, and many others do, that the task of saving the Earth's environment will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world, especially after the Earth Summit. I believe deeply that the United States must be in a leadership position in this post-Cold War era.
And all of this mishandling of our country's relationship to the rest of the world here at the Earth Summit by the White House with its divisions, all of that has hurt our country's ability to be a leader on these important issues. And we should be. We have the record as a country to do it if we just stop backtracking on environmental protection.
AMANPOUR: Wow. I mean, first of all, we both look so young. But secondly, you were really prescient. That bit stands the test of time. But, you know, so the question is, if America — well, you rate America where it is in terms of leadership right now, because for all I know, the Chinese are accelerating way beyond America on the green technology.
GORE: Yes, and it's tragic that Donald Trump and his fossil fuel polluter allies are shooting America in both feet, metaphorically, where the economy is concerned. You know, here's a new statistic that's just out, Christiane. China is now exporting to other countries more green technology like electric vehicles and windmills and solar. The value of their green tech exports now far exceeds the exports from the United States to the rest of the world of all of the fossil fuels, all of the coal and gas and oil.
