Huhne blasts Lord Lawson's "misguided" climate sceptic group

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Letter to the Global Warming Policy Foundation think-tank defends government policy and scientific evidence for climate change

Chris Huhne has branded Lord Lawson's climate sceptic thinktank the Global Warming Policy Foundation "misinformed" and "perverse". In his second letter to Lord Lawson, the energy and climate change...

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