Climate Tasmania

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

Malcolm Turnbull lights a fuse

Malcolm Turnbull has re-lit the climate fuse in the Opposition ranks. We’ll have to wait to find out whether it will all blow up in his face. [31 May 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Politics has its less newsworthy periods, but it’s never boring. Even in the quiet times you can be sure that behind the scenes [...]

At last peak oil goes mainstream. Now what?

The world’s oil establishment has at last acknowledged the reality of peak oil. Now we have to work out what to do about it, and it won’t be easy. [24 May 2011 | Peter Boyer]
How are we travelling? Well, not far ahead — perhaps within a couple of years — and in the absence of [...]

We should be listening to these people

They’re struggling to be heard, but the “Climate Action” people have things to say that we need to know about. [17 May 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Every second Tuesday, around 20 people get together in a Hobart meeting room, provided free of charge by some sympathetic hosts, and plot to change the world.
They’re people of all [...]