# Al Gore: We're going to win the climate fight

> Two decades after An Inconvenient Truth, the former VP says clean energy momentum is unstoppable despite fossil fuel industry resistance.
- Title: Al Gore: We're going to win the climate fight · Mother Jones
- Summary: Two decades after An Inconvenient Truth, the former VP says clean energy momentum is unstoppable despite fossil fuel industry resistance. Gore believes we're…
- Keywords: al gore, climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy, an inconvenient truth, climate crisis, clean energy, climate activism, climate reality project, un climate week, global heating, Gore
- Source: Mother Jones — https://motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/al-al-gore-inconvenient-truth-speech-un-climate-week-new-york-crisis-action-renewables-momentum
- Author: Oliver Milman
- Published: 2026-09-26T11:15:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: al gore, climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy, an inconvenient truth, climate crisis, clean energy, climate activism, climate reality project, un climate week, global heating
## Gore's two decade climate journey
Twenty years after his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains optimistic about confronting the climate crisis despite underestimating the fossil fuel industry's resistance.

> The resistance has been more durable and sustained than I expected it to be.
## Scientists were right, maybe understated it
Climate scientists' predictions have proven accurate, and some impacts may be worse than originally forecast. Global heating is causing record heatwaves and glacier collapses.

> The scientists unfortunately have been proven to be absolutely correct.
## Oil industry captured governments
The fossil fuel industry has gained control over many governments and even influenced UN climate science bodies to a shocking degree, according to Gore.

> The fossil fuel industry has captured control of too many governments.
## Climate reality network spans globe
Gore's Climate Reality Project has built a grassroots movement of 4.5 million people across 196 countries to train and mobilize climate activists.
## Tipping points threaten catastrophe
Melting ice sheets and the Amazon turning into savanna could trigger irreversible climate tipping points that cause utter devastation if temperature rise isn't stopped.
## Clean energy now cheaper than coal
Renewable energy has become routinely cheaper than fossil fuels, making mass adoption inevitable. Previous worst case projections of 4C warming are now unlikely.
## We're approaching the winning moment
Gore believes clean energy momentum will soon become unstoppable, but the critical question is whether this happens fast enough to avoid catastrophic tipping points.

> I think we are going to win this. The remaining question is whether we will win it in time.
## Renewables are now unstoppable
UN Secretary General António Guterres echoed Gore's optimism, saying renewables are the cheapest and fastest source of new electricity, making clean energy adoption inevitable.

> Clean energy has gone from alternative to unstoppable.
## Key takeaway

Gore believes we're approaching a tipping point where clean energy adoption and public opinion will overcome fossil fuel industry opposition, but speed matters to avoid catastrophic climate damage.