Greens may block carbon farming bill

But Greens deputy leader Christine Milne has dismissed Labor's carbon farming program, comparing it with discredited Howard government managed investment schemes, in which landowners were given tax breaks to plant trees.

"I don't think this has been very well thought through," Senator Milne told the same forum at Parliament House.

Gore, Jackson, 6,000 students expected at We Day rally in Ontario - Winnipeg Free Press

WATERLOO, Ont. - Thousands of students gather today to listen to some inspirational leaders but the politicians may well be the ones to find it inspiring.

Nobel Laureate Al Gore, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Rev. Jesse Jackson are in Kitchener, Ont., for a rally for social change called We Day.

Climate change: Americans and global warming, continued | The Economist

Some commenters had the provocative thought that environmentalists should emphasise the effect (climate change) rather than the cause (anthropogenic).