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This has the makings of the same Alphonse and Gaston routine which signaled that card check was never going to make it out of the Senate.

And there is a hitch: cap-and-trade was supposed to be a revenue raiser, part of the funding source for healthcare. So if we are not going to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from Americans in the form of new energy taxes how are we going to pay for nationalized healthcare? That’s a good question for the Blue Dog Democrats who have always been quite concerned about PAYGO (paying for what Congress spends). And it is of course a challenge for the Obama administration which has already stretched its fiscal credibility to the breaking point with the existing $3.6 trillion budget.

U.S. climate talks make progress, with some gaps | Politics | Reuters

"To speak of America taking over the leading role in climate change -- as a European, one can confidently say that the United States are far away from that," Gabriel said.

"Europe still has this leadership role, but we would happily share it with the Americans."

Climate 'shielding Indonesia from swine flu' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Indonesia's health minister says the reason the country has been spared from any confirmed swine flu infections is largely because of its climate.
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Ms Dijakovic says equatorial countries like Indonesia are a problem because there the flu season never ends.

But that is not the way Dr Supari sees it and yesterday she said that H1N1 could only survive in cold weather.

"Australia says H1N1 is more dangerous than bird flu," she said.

"Well yes, for Australia ... but for Indonesia that's not the case, because in Indonesia the weather is never cold, unlike Australia."