Climate Tasmania

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]