Beddington does the climate change shuffle

John Beddington, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, stressed that he was not a politician at a breakfast meeting in London on 20 February.

He then skilfully delivered a politician’s answer about his frustration over the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen.

He started out in forthright mood: “Clearly Copenhagen was a disappointment. We didn’t get a timetable for a legal treaty, we don’t have commitments to cut emissions,” he said. Then his opinion began to soften.

New Scientist