Climate Tasmania

Will Australia’s much-heralded carbon pricing scheme turn out to be an excuse to turn our backs on much-needed complementary measures? [17 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Five months ago many Australians, including me, gave qualified applause to the passage of the Gillard government’s carbon pricing legislation, due to enter into force on July 1.
We applauded as [...]

Media briefing, University Club, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 10.30 am, 21 February 2012, for the launch of the Climate Commission Report, The Critical Decade: Tasmanian impacts and opportunities.
Participants: Professor Tim Flannery (chair), Professor Will Steffen and Professor Lesley Hughes, all of Climate Commission, and the Tasmanian Minister for Climate Change, Cassy O’Conner.
FLANNERY: Welcome everyone. Thank [...]

Powerful interests in the US and Australia are seeking to silence our scientists and anaesthetise us against the impact of their findings. [14 February 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Human enlightenment is a fragile thing, and don’t ever think otherwise. Here’s a sobering story about how ignorant, self-serving ideology can destroy good science.
In 1934 a distinguished Russian biologist [...]