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.

The long and winding Climate Project road

The Climate Project: a 12-month commitment for four Tasmanians that has turned into years, without any end in sight.

We all must take responsibility for wildfires

No-one could have stopped the Victorian fires. Climate change is the principal cause; we need to assume that this isn’t a one-off event.

How semantics and self-interest can cloud our judgement

Those of us who question that humans need to change their ways are ignoring overwhelming evidence that — regardless of climate change — our impact on the planet’s natural systems threatens our own future.