Climate Tasmania

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

The state of our climate

Australia’s national climate research agencies have issued their direst warning yet about the state of the climate, but who’s listening? [20 March 2012 | Peter Boyer]
The most remarkable thing about last week’s deceptively-brief “State of the Climate” report is not what it had to say — shocking though that is — but the political context in [...]

US report: Global warming is real and happening quickly

A leading climate agency presents more powerful evidence that the world is rapidly warming. [3 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Earth has just experienced its hottest decade since we began measuring such things, and 2010 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded. That’s the official word from the world’s leading national climate agency.

These observations [...]