"It undermines America's standing in the world and threatens to damage humanity's ability to solve the climate change in time," Gore said.

My statement on Today’s Decision by the Trump Administration to Withdraw from the Paris Agreement: https://t.co/eDEFv5b1nS pic.twitter.com/SzHJU3D0Mr — Al Gore (@algore) June 1, 2017

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But Gore added that America's government, civic and business leaders will take up the slack to prevent climate change.

"We are in the middle of a clean energy revolution that no single person or group can stop," he said.

"President Trump's decision is profoundly in conflict with what the majority of Americans want from our president, but no matter what he does we will ensure that our inevitable transition to a clean energy economy continues," he continued.

But after the Senate showed little interest in passing Kyoto in the Clinton years, then-President George W. Bush abandoned it for good.

Trump announced Thursday that he will pull out of the Paris agreement, fulfilling a campaign promise. The Paris climate deal had created a nonbinding pact among 195 nations to work against the effects of climate change.

While the move drew criticism from environmentalists like Gore, many conservatives praised Trump and said that the pact was too much of a burden on the American economy.