Climate Tasmania

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

Topics

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.

A reflective toast in this blessed place

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 [...]

We all must take responsibility for wildfires

No-one could have stopped the Victorian fires. Climate change is the principal cause; we need to assume that this isn’t a one-off event.