Climate Tasmania

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

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Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project (originally named The Climate Project), founded by Al Gore, came to Australia in 2006. There are five Al Gore-trained Climate Reality volunteer presenters in Tasmania. To book a presentation for your school, community or workplace group, email Sustainable Living Tasmania or telephone (03) 62345566. The Climate Reality Project is administered in Australia by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

What is really needed to address climate change?

Address to the 15th International Environmental Forum, Hobart, 10 and 11 December 2011. Conference theme: Ethical Responses to Climate Change [11 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
I’ll start at the beginning. Or about 56 million years ago, when the dinosaurs had only recently been extinguished and mammals were in the early stages of their evolution. There [...]

While the debate rages, so does the climate

The growing gap between public support for action and the scientific evidence is driving senior scientists to distraction. [5 July 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Neither Al Gore nor yours truly seems to have much to say these days, lamented a recent Mercury correspondent. “Is it a sign that climate is as always was? Perhaps Mr Boyer [...]

Giving nature a place in the Church

Adrian Doyle is an unlikely environmental champion, but he’s pushing his church to become more aware of the importance of the natural world. [8 February 2010 | Peter Boyer]
In 2005, before Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth put climate change on the global agenda, about 300 Catholics gathered in Canberra for a “National Climate Change [...]