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 rise and rise of Action Man

We lionise people of action, but they don’t always deliver what’s needed. [24 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
It’s a funny thing that while our waistlines expand along with our aversion to exercise, we seem to be hearing and talking more than ever about the tough guy, the no-fat, no-nonsense, hard-working pioneer who gets things done.
Our [...]

John Church: the scientist’s scientist

A Hobart scientist’s achievement in casting light on what is causing our sea levels to change has been recognised with Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science. [10 April 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Under low clouds, perhaps lit by a lightning bolt, the city waits helplessly as a wind-whipped surge of ocean water approaches, threatening to [...]

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 [...]