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Email row 'will affect' US climate policy

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There are growing concerns that an email scandal could prevent a deal at Copenhagen climate summit.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to look into emails exchanged by researchers at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, for evidence that they manipulated global warming data.

The head of the IPCC told the BBC that the scandal is a "very serious matter". Environment analyst Roger Harrabin comments on the revelations.

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