Merkel adviser lashes Abbott's 'suicide strategy' on coal

By Lisa Cox
Updated October 3 2014 - 8:13am, first published October 2 2014 - 10:00pm
Pictured: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Photo: Scott Morton
Pictured: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Photo: Scott Morton

A lead adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on climate policy has attacked Australia's complacency on global warming and described the Abbott government's championing of the coal industry as an economic "suicide strategy".