Climate Tasmania

Conspiracy theorists and deniers of climate science findings are an influential undercurrent in the Coalition’s contribution to the carbon price debate. [27 September 2011 | Peter Boyer]

Nearly two years ago, just before Tony Abbott won leadership of his party from Malcolm Turnbull by a single vote, I wrote about the schism that Abbott’s climate-driven challenge [...]

The state of the world’s sea ice is one of the most telling indicators of a warming planet. The news from the poles is not good. [20 September 2011 | Peter Boyer]
While Federal Parliament debates the merits of carbon pricing to deal with climate change, out there in the real world the climate really is [...]

Are we really an educated country? Recent attacks on science, driven by fear and misinformation, suggest otherwise. [13 September 2011 | Peter Boyer]
More than 150 years have passed since the Irish physicist John Tyndall announced his discovery that water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane, though they form a tiny part of the atmosphere, keep us [...]