Climate Tasmania

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

Flannery puts the case for hope

Hope is the message that emerges from a sweeping analysis of our present time on Earth. This is Tim Flannery’s best book yet.
[30 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Tim Flannery’s new book, Here on Earth, is the story of life on Planet Earth. Themes don’t come any bigger than this, so Flannery sensibly draws on the [...]

The price of power

Rising power prices are causing real distress, but there’s worse to come, throwing into ever-starker relief the need to reduce our energy usage. [28 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
The disturbing sight on our television screens of elderly Tasmanians getting upset over ever-climbing electricity bills should be a wake-up call to everyone thinking about where Tasmania (or [...]

Fleshing out the climate-health connection

A 2009 Lancet study put climate change at the top of the list of health threats this century, but the finding has yet to resonate with public health authorities. A Tasmanian public health specialist aims to change all that. [21 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
The frog in the simmering pot is one of the enduring metaphors [...]