Climate expert: Copenhagen is 'four years behind the science'

| 16th December 2009
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Head of the Potsdam Institute and climate change advisor to the German government, Professor John Schellnhuber explains why COP15 is based on out-of-date science, but why he still has hope for a positive outcome
 

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