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Al Gore: climate change threat leaves 'no time to despair' over Trump victory
(The Guardian, 5 Dec 2016) Former vice-president expects backlash from environmentalists against Trump and hopes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will join fight.
The urgent threat of climate change means there is “no time to despair” over the election of Donald Trump, according to former vice-president Al Gore , who hopes that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will join an escalated climate campaign against the president-elect.
Gore told the Guardian he remained hopeful Trump would reverse some of his positions on climate change but predicted an unprecedented backlash from environmentalists over the next four years.
Trump, who has called climate change a hoax , has pledged to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord , dismantle the Clean Power Plan, slash renewable energy funding and somehow prop up the ailing US coal industry.
The Guardian, 5 Dec 2016: Al Gore: climate change threat leaves 'no time to despair' over Trump victory 
