I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

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

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.