Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.