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.

Im no expert on American politics.

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

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.