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F<\/span>ear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis<\/a>, Al Gore<\/a> has speculated, as he slammed the billionaire\u2019s new position as \u201csilly\u201d, and the US president for his anti-climate stance.<\/p>\n Trump, \u201cthe most corrupt president in American history\u201d, was \u201cbadly damaging the US economy\u201d by pulling away from renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels, the former US vice-president warned.<\/p>\n \u201c[Trump\u2019s] already doing a lot of damage [on the climate],\u201d Gore said, in an interview with the Guardian at the Cop30 United Nations climate summit in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil<\/a>. \u201cMaybe the biggest harm he\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Gates, a philanthropist and founder of Microsoft, made waves around the world<\/a> when he publicly argued for pushing the climate crisis down the international agenda, in favour of more focus on health issues.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of slowing down on climate again, every climate scientist that I know and respect just threw up their hands and said: \u2018What in the world is he thinking?\u2019\u201d said Gore.<\/p>\n