Climate Tasmania

The big floods have roused a hornets’ nest over their link to climate change and the potential culpability of coal miners. [1 February | Peter Boyer]
We all know that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, any more than one flood makes a climate catastrophe. Senator Eric Abetz was quick to point this out in a [...]

Dealing with a counter-intuitive reality [11 January 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Walking the dog on Fern Tree’s Pipeline Track, every so often I encounter our local weatherman, Bradley Hudson. We chat about this and that, including of course the weather — and there’s always plenty of that on Mount Wellington.
Bradley isn’t a professional weatherman, but he [...]

The meticulous work of thousands of climate scientists is being challenged by a well-resourced misinformation campaign, says the Government’s scientific adviser on climate change. Should we believe him, or put our trust in the carbon lobby? [19 October 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Here are a couple of questions that anyone with an opinion about whether humans affect [...]