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IssuesLetter: Climate Change and the Electricity Industry, Moving in the Right Direction?

By Regulatory Assistance Project On September 1, 1997

Despite remaining scientific uncertainties, 2600 international climate scientists advising the United Nations IPCC reached consensus that “discernible human influence on global climate,” and stressed the “importance for timely decision-making.”

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