Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

Are our eyes too big for our stomachs?

Our ability to meet the challenge of global warming is under threat from an ever-growing appetite for protein.

The road from Bali

With the Bali climate meeting over, Kevin Rudd must put behind him the applause and back-slapping and put meat on the bare bones of his climate change policies.

Trees: a lifeline from nature

The capacity of mature native forests to store carbon is a valuable asset that we need to preserve.