Climate Tasmania

A Tasmanian take on the thorniest global issue since the dinosaurs. Based on Peter Boyer’s newspaper column in the Hobart Mercury.

A perfect storm of weather, money, food

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. [...]

US report: Global warming is real and happening quickly

A leading climate agency presents more powerful evidence that the world is rapidly warming. [3 August 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Earth has just experienced its hottest decade since we began measuring such things, and 2010 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded. That’s the official word from the world’s leading national climate agency.

These observations [...]

Pooling our creative resources opens up possibilities

Tackling climate change is above all a creative challenge, in which the arts community plays a crucial role.