Climate Tasmania

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

James Hansen interviewed on Australian radio

James Hansen, world-leading climate scientist and Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, talks about his personal, professional and public life in a one-hour interview with Phillip Adams during his visit to Australia in March 2010. [13 March 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Late Night Live, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Interviewed on 8 March 2010. Listen to [...]

Our culture is killing us

We have to confront the fact that climate change is a global emergency before we can meet the real challenge, which is cultural change. [1 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Getting busy is a sure way to lose track of time. Since I busied myself with the problem of climate change, I’m often surprised by how [...]

Is this the future we had to have?

The Age of Stupid is not some flight of fancy. It’s sobering to realise that the frightening scenarios presented in this 2009 feature film are firmly rooted in real, current scientific research. [21 August 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Remarks to the audience before the Tasmanian premiere of The Age of Stupid, State Cinema, Hobart, Friday 21 August [...]