Climate Tasmania

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

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Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project (originally named The Climate Project), founded by Al Gore, came to Australia in 2006. There are five Al Gore-trained Climate Reality volunteer presenters in Tasmania. To book a presentation for your school, community or workplace group, email Sustainable Living Tasmania or telephone (03) 62345566. The Climate Reality Project is administered in Australia by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Inertia: why we should be acting now

Our current high level of carbon emissions is committing the planet to serious warming in coming decades. The only thing that will keep global warming within manageable limits is a deep, early reduction in emissions world-wide.

Will we shop till we drop?

Our addiction to acquiring stuff needs two or more Earths to sustain it. Unless we can break the consumption habit, something else will break.

How do we get climate science into living rooms?

Getting ordinary people to accept scientific advice on something as complex and hard to see as climate change will not be an easy task. Most of all, it will require politicians to be aware of the science and committed to acting on it.