Scrambling to make an impact on climate change

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is director emeritus of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), an adviser to Angela Merkel and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

"It's as if we are crashing into a wall and we are accelerating," the 69-year-old German atmospheric physicist told Kathimerini. He says that people who turn a blind eye to climate change remind him of the joke about the man falling from the Empire State Building saying "So far everything is OK."
Still, while he says the the growing movement against climate change may have come too late, he adds that "at least it came, because it's worth fighting every tenth of a degree of global warming."
 
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