Although the panel said the CRU scientists were careful with caveats, people who subsequently made use of their results, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sometimes oversimplified issues, underplaying possible errors.

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Two days earlier the Dutch environmental-assessment agency announced the results of a report it had been asked to produce on possible errors in the most recent review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Regardless of possible errors, elected officials such as Ana Gutierrez -- a member of the Race and Ethnic Advisory Committee to the Census -- said there is already a disproportionate representation of Hispanics in government.

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One possible reason for these errors is a muddying of the waters in recent years between civilian and military justice.

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