Reuters: Climate change will not be a top
issue in the United States under President Barack Obama, despite
the soaring rhetoric in his Inaugural Address last month.
Past failure to pass sweeping U.S. climate legislation will
probably instead see his administration target modest, discrete,
broadly popular measures on efficiency, fuel economy and
long-term tax breaks for renewable energy.
"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing
that the failure to do so would betray...