Climate Tasmania

It isn’t a question of who’s following whom. The critical question is, what is the evidence saying? [22 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
“I believe in climate change” is one of the silliest lines to emerge from the interminable debates about climate — perhaps as silly as “God will fix everything no matter what we do”.
It’s [...]

Hydro power was a good idea back then, and it still is, as Nigel Tomlin is showing. [15 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
It seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. In 1878 the world’s first hydro-electric plant near Rothbury, England, started producing power, and here in the Antipodes were all these rivers cascading [...]

We lionise people of action, but they don’t always deliver what’s needed. [24 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
It’s a funny thing that while our waistlines expand along with our aversion to exercise, we seem to be hearing and talking more than ever about the tough guy, the no-fat, no-nonsense, hard-working pioneer who gets things done.
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