Climate Tasmania

The world ocean is the biggest heat store on the planet and a determining factor in global climate, yet we continue to overlook what’s happening there. [22 June 2010 | Peter Boyer]

We know a lot about the land that we live on, and have made a pretty fair fist of understanding other lands, including remote places like Antarctica [...]

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 [...]

We should celebrate our good fortune in Tasmania these past 12 months, with good rains and a glorious summer, but not without reminding ourselves of the ever-pressing need to reduce our carbon emissions. [12 January 2010 | Peter Boyer]

At the dawn of this new decade, the gods are smiling on many of us in Tasmania. Most [...]