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IPCC: The climate chairman

Getting hundreds of experts to agree is never easy. Ottmar Edenhofer takes a firm, philosophical approach to the task.

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Schiermeier, Q. IPCC: The climate chairman. Nature 501, 303–305 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/501303a

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