ANALYSIS - Backers of UN climate treaty look to 2010 for deal | World | Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen in December are unlikely to agree a legally binding treaty and even backers of a robust pact are reluctantly starting to look to new deadlines in 2010.

After months of saying there is no "Plan B" despite bogged-down negotiations, the United Nations, host Denmark and some other European countries say Copenhagen may at best reach a political deal to step up the fight against global warming.
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"I'd say it's 99 percent certain that we won't reach some kind of ratifiable agreement in Copenhagen," said Bill Hare, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an expert on the U.N. negotiations.

Kerry: US leadership at stake in climate debate

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lead author of a Senate climate bill says action to combat global warming will raise energy prices, but also create jobs and that inaction could cause even worse economic and security problems.

Secretary Chus Testimony to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | R&D Mag

When I appeared before you in July, I focused on the energy challenge and the grave threat from climate change.
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Today, I want to focus on the other half of the energy equation: the energy opportunity.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Briggs and Big Oil

I now invite proponents of the most frightening forecasts to be as open in their declaration of interests as I have been (this includes grants with salary support, my friends).