I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

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.

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

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

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

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.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.