Climate Tasmania

Carl Sagan showed us all how inspiring science can be. [8 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Flickering black and white reception made it hard to be enthusiastic about television in rural Tasmania in 1982. But for 13 wonderful weeks that winter, I was transfixed by a show about pretty well everything, featuring a cheerful, irrepressible American [...]

Are we really an educated country? Recent attacks on science, driven by fear and misinformation, suggest otherwise. [13 September 2011 | Peter Boyer]
More than 150 years have passed since the Irish physicist John Tyndall announced his discovery that water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane, though they form a tiny part of the atmosphere, keep us [...]

The growing gap between public support for action and the scientific evidence is driving senior scientists to distraction. [5 July 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Neither Al Gore nor yours truly seems to have much to say these days, lamented a recent Mercury correspondent. “Is it a sign that climate is as always was? Perhaps Mr Boyer [...]