Australia: It's too risky to go bush | Herald Sun

SOME schools may permanently ban student camps during the summer and early autumn as concern grows over the effects of climate change.

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But are offsets really the answer in the fight against global warming? Clarke investigates a number of projects - from tree-planting in the UK to pig manure in Mexico - all of which are supposed to cancel out our carbon footprint. But do these projects stand up to scrutiny?

Ontario's green pit bulls | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

Ironically, McGuinty has broken his 2003 election promise to close Ontario's coal-fired energy plants by 2007 so many times -- the one thing he could have done to lower Ontario's greenhouse gas and pollution emissions -- that we've stopped counting.

Either he didn't understand when he made this pledge it would be impossible to achieve in a four-year time frame, or he did and didn't care.

Neither possibility is comforting given that our premier now claims expertise on which citizen objections in the relatively new field of renewable energy are valid and which aren't.