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.

Where’s the substance behind the window-dressing?

The science of climate change is nothing like as complex as the politics, rife with grand schemes and empty assurances, but with little evidence of decreasing emissions from government activities. [29 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Tasmania’s record rains are in stark contrast to the dust storms that signal a drought-stricken continent: such are the complex, [...]

Politicians on climate: a failure of wit, will and imagination

At every turn we are reminded of how little politicians know, or even care, about today’s climate emergency. Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson have given us a prime example. [22 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Our politicians are failing us. Our administrations are failing us. Our corporate leaders are failing us. In unison, they are marching ever [...]

Garnaut’s appeal: stand up and face reality

Ross Garnaut’s recipe for climate action treads a fine line between political and physical reality. Tasmania needs to pay careful heed to the Garnaut Report’s implications.