Top U.S. energy and climate leaders yesterday began to openly plan for international global warming talks to trickle into 2010.
Experts have predicted for months that a major U.N. summit in Copenhagen this December -- billed as the place 192 nations would complete a new emissions pact -- would not deliver by deadline. With health care reform now sucking all the political oxygen out of the U.S. Senate, and with countries still bickering over fundamental issues, completing a new treaty within three months is looking more and more improbable.
Key leaders are starting to say it out loud, and are putting the best face on what some are calling "Plan B."
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