Climate Tasmania

The disaster unfolding in Africa is one of many warnings about the need to think anew and plan for structural change. [16 August 2011 | Peter Boyer]
The Horn of Africa once experienced droughts every decade; now it has them every two years, reported the UN’s new Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, from Somalia last month. [...]

The big floods have roused a hornets’ nest over their link to climate change and the potential culpability of coal miners. [1 February | Peter Boyer]
We all know that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, any more than one flood makes a climate catastrophe. Senator Eric Abetz was quick to point this out in a [...]

Dealing with a counter-intuitive reality [11 January 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Walking the dog on Fern Tree’s Pipeline Track, every so often I encounter our local weatherman, Bradley Hudson. We chat about this and that, including of course the weather — and there’s always plenty of that on Mount Wellington.
Bradley isn’t a professional weatherman, but he [...]