Climate Tasmania

It’s fine for a banker to endow us with his wisdom on financial matters. It’s not fine when he uses his platform to contradict the prevailing science of climate change. [13 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
A couple of weeks ago David Murray, chairman of Australia’s Future Fund and long-serving former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, [...]

Climate Futures for Tasmania was a far-sighted investment in a unique product that will be an invaluable tool for land managers in the 21st century. [11 October 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Here’s some good news. The Tasmanian government, for all its financial woes, has made a long-term investment that the wise money says will pay for [...]

The tendency of some politicians to seek to denigrate scientists and their work threatens our prospects of dealing with future change. [30 August 2011 | Peter Boyer]

Last week Julia Gillard’s chief climate science adviser, Professor Will Steffen, crossed Bass Strait to talk to the citizens of Hobart and some senior public servants about why we [...]