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In Wake of Climategate Revelations, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers Should Stop Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade Legislation
Washington, DC - The Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research is calling on Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers to cease lobbying for global warming cap-and-trade legislation in the wake of revelations leading to questions about the integrity of the data and processes underpinning the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) global warming conclusions.
The IPCC is the United Nations body that concluded man's activity is responsible for global warming.
In a scandal now known as "Climategate," released documents and emails from a climate research branch of a British university reveal what appear to be efforts to manipulate data to support the preexisting views of leading climate researchers.
Raw data on which IPCC conclusions were based also has been destroyed.
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