The investigation led authorities to someone they accuse of being the cartel leader, Luis Hernando Gomez-Bustamante, still wanted by the feds.

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In later years, when he and his colleagues had pushed climate change, and in particular greenhouse warming, on to the agenda, people keen to ensure a lack of action made much of his about-face over cooling, preferring to accuse him of modish inconsistency than to see him as someone who had worked to improve his models, and as a result had changed his mind.

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