Sydney Morning Herald: The Gillard government’s carbon price has already “inspired the world” to press ahead with measures to tackle climate change, former US vice-president Al Gore says.
Labelling Australia one of the “canaries in the coalmine” for the effects of global warming, Mr Gore told a breakfast launch in Canberra of a new Climate Commission report there was much cause for optimism about global efforts to solve the problem.
Speaking via video presentation, Mr Gore said that the Queensland floods and Black…