Climate Tasmania

It isn’t a question of who’s following whom. The critical question is, what is the evidence saying? [22 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
“I believe in climate change” is one of the silliest lines to emerge from the interminable debates about climate — perhaps as silly as “God will fix everything no matter what we do”.
It’s [...]

Mawson’s scientific venture gets the credit it deserves as modern science seeks to understand what’s happening to the Antarctic ice sheet [17 January 2012 | Peter Boyer]
A hundred years ago this summer, an expedition led by a South Australian geologist named Douglas Mawson made this country a world leader in the science of the far [...]

Are we hard-wired to ignore problems till they happen? A “game theory” research project and a neurological study suggest we are. [8 November 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Trouble is brewing in the Himalayas, in the form of 20,000 glacial lakes. Some are enlargements of old lakes, but most are just a few years or decades old. [...]