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In their efforts to make climate information more useful for adaptation decisions, scientists will need to be clear about the limits of climate prediction.
Hopes are fading that a strong treaty will emerge from next month's negotiations in Copenhagen. Researchers who study cooperation, though, aren't surprised. Mason Inman reports.
