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Tue 12 Dec 2009UN optimistic about climate summit
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today that e-mails leaked from a British university have done nothing to undermine the United Nations' view that climate change is accelerating due to humans.
"Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message on climate change and that message is quite clear -- that climate change is happening much, much faster than we realised and we human beings are the primary cause," he said.
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