Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

March 26, 2026·1 hr 6 min·5 clips

Al Gore says Earth traps heat equal to 750,000 Hiroshima bombs exploding every day.

First, the ads. The episode opens with sponsor copy before Tim Miller gets to Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, and the Climate Reality Project anniversary trainings. Miller sounds keyed up, almost surprised by the strange road that got them here, and then the conversation heads straight into danger. Gore comes in hot. He says Trump's threats and ultimatums are failing, especially on Iran and the risk of escalation. The stakes are plain: attacks on civilians and civilian power plants, Gore says, would be a war crime according to most international lawyers and could bring responses against Israel and Gulf nations. Miller keeps the tone human. He puts himself and Gore in the no-war-with-Iran camp, then Gore broadens the charge. In his view, the problem is not just bad policy. It is bad judgment after clear warnings. Then he makes the climate turn. He asks listeners to see the same failure in climate-hoax politics, where the damage looks even harder to contain. His examples are not soft ones: 61% of Earth's land mass had at least one month of extreme drought last year, Hawaii saw a downpour, and Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice each hour. Miller adds quick asides so the room does not go completely grim. The ads return at the end, which makes the middle feel starker. Between the plugs, Gore is arguing that reckless judgment spreads across war, climate, and the public's grip on reality.

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A direct Gore conversation linking Iran, escalation, and climate denial.

Al Gore uses the 20th anniversary of An Inconvenient Truth to fold in the Climate Reality Project trainings tied to the moment, including the one in Nashville.

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You want Gore in a blunt, high-stakes interview that moves from Iran to climate.

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