Climate Tasmania

The Murray-Darling floods may seem like an anomaly, but they fit within the IPCC pattern for climate change in Australia. [13 March 2012 | Peter Boyer]
The long-suffering people of the Murray-Darling basin don’t need to be told that Australia’s biggest river system is now awash with water.
Two years ago the system looked broken, barely alive [...]

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 [...]

The Durban meeting was a classic case of putting off till tomorrow what’s too hard to manage today. [20 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
A pet irritation of my mother was seeing jobs left unfinished. I used to think she targeted me unfairly, but I came to see how kids are past masters at finding something [...]