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Thu 03 Mar 2010Climate research missteps 'change nothing'
THE DISCLOSURE of research “missteps” hasn’t shaken the consensus that man-made emissions from burning fossil fuels are contributing to climate change, President Barack Obama’s top science adviser has said.
The release of scientists’ e-mails and errors in a report by a United Nations climate panel show researchers are human, John Holdren said yesterday at an energy conference in Washington. The errors don’t alter the fact that carbon dioxide emissions are warming the Earth, he said.
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