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.

Differing views, common cause

A mild Greenland climate in medieval times is no evidence that today’s warming is insignificant. [4 October 2011 | Peter Boyer]
“I’m looking forward to a warmer planet,” wrote a Mercury website correspondent last week.
“It’s happened in the past,” he went on. “There’s no doubt the climate is changing — bring it on. Don’t believe [...]

Climate alarms from the cryosphere

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 [...]

Garnaut: greenhouse science is “beyond reasonable doubt”

Ross Garnaut’s careful appraisal of climate science finds that evidence supporting decisive action has strengthened over the past three years. [22 March 2011 | Peter Boyer]
The capacity Hobart audience turning out earlier this month to hear Professor Ross Garnaut on the current state of climate change science was testament to our crying need for a [...]