Al Gore, former US vice-president, described Trump as a modern-day King Canute. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images

Twenty years after he made the terrifying climate apocalypse documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, former US vice-president Al Gore is back with a new message: don’t panic.

He referred specifically to the fresh “emergency” facing the world, Donald Trump.

But although he didn’t play down the influence of the climate-denying US leader, he said other countries should not over-react.

“A friend of mine said, there’s an equation worth remembering,” he began in an interview at a Ted Talks event in

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