SEX CASE COPS GRILL AL GORE - National Enquirer

In a bombshell new development in the AL GORE SEX SCANDAL, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that the former vice president has finally been interviewed by police in the Molly Hagerty case.

Sources close to the investigation reveal that detectives from the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau traveled quietly to San Francisco on Thursday for the secret meeting with the 62-year-old Nobel Prize winner.

"Al Gore has finally been interviewed face to face by detectives in the Molly Hagerty case," a close source told The ENQUIRER. "Details of what was disclosed in the police interview by Gore --and exactly how long the meeting lasted -- remain secret at this time."

Gloom Awaits U.S. Climate Diplomacy - Council on Foreign Relations

The second U.S. promise in Copenhagen was more pivotal. On the next-to-last day of the summit, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised that the United States would help raise up to $100 billion annually by 2020 to aid developing countries in dealing with climate change.
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The U.S. share of that $100 billion figure also came from Waxman-Markey. Raising it without cap-and-trade will almost certainly be impossible. If others conclude from the current debacle that cap-and-trade is permanently dead in the United States, Washington will be in for a rough ride at the climate talks in Cancun in December and in other (almost certainly more important) efforts that follow.
...International observers have watched the U.S. political debate with growing skepticism over whether Washington could ever deliver cap-and-trade, but they have still held out hope. The sharp setback to the Senate's cap-and-trade efforts on July 22 means that the honeymoon for U.S. climate diplomacy is over.

US Senate deals blow to global climate talks

"This is going to change the mood dramatically in terms of what countries are willing to put on the table in Cancun," said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which backs action to curb global warming.
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Obama's climate negotiators enjoyed rousing welcomes when they arrived on the scene -- especially from the European Union, Kyoto's most enthusiastic champion.
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"We're still facing a very weak economy and we're still facing questions on the cost of any meaningful reduction," said Ben Lieberman, an energy expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think-tank.

"It's pretty clear that no post-Kyoto treaty is in the making -- certainly not in Cancun, and maybe not ever."