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.

Challenges and opportunities in a new-age energy market

Tasmania’s electricity market is set to become more competitive. Where is this trend taking us? [15 February 2011 | Peter Boyer]
The story of Tasmania’s electricity market gets murkier by the day. To the public shock over power prices has been added a spate of seemingly absurd decisions to buy power from far-away Queensland. But in [...]

Despite the cold, Tasmania is warming

It got suddenly chilly in the second week of May, but the cold masks an underlying warming that has continued for over half a century. [8 June 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Global warming would have been the farthest thing from your mind if you’d spent a certain weekend last month at Liawenee on Tasmania’s Central Plateau.
The night [...]

The expensive red-herring that is “clean coal”

In the national effort to cut carbon emissions, “clean coal” is a fraught issue: the technology is feasible but financial and physical issues make it a dubious prospect. It’s real danger is in encouraging prolonged use of coal.