Climate Tasmania

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

A faint glimmer through a murky haze

Australian politics is much preoccupied with climate change these days, but so far it’s nearly all noise. A new carbon price proposal offers some faint hope. [16 February 2010 | Peter Boyer]
The climate debate is getting noisy . Before, it mostly took the form of conference papers and blog-site comments about the science. Now the volume [...]

Australia takes the low road

Kevin Rudd’s promise of leadership on climate change is looking fraudulent in the wake of the pathetic emissions targets announced last week.

A lesson from the financial crisis: don’t wait for the crash

The economic crisis is just a sideshow compared with the task ahead in confronting climate change.