Climate Tasmania

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

• Sustainable Living Tasmania
• Tasmanian Climate Change Office
• Climate Action Tasmania
• Climate Action Hobart
• Future Tasmania
• Peak Oil Tasmania
• Climate Launceston
• Climate Story Tellers
• 350 global campaign
• Climate Reality Project

• CSIRO Climate Science
• Climate TV
• Skeptical Science
• Climate Change Australia
• Real Climate
• Worldwatch Institute
• Open Mind
• Spencer Weart/AIP: The Discovery of Global Warming
• A Climate for Change

• CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
• Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC
• Australian Antarctic Division
• Bureau of Meteorology
• Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania

• The Mercury
• Tasmanian Times

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.

•The Durban Platform
•The Critical Decade

•Cancún Agreements

•Copenhagen Accord

•Strategies for a safe climate

•Climate and scientific integrity

•Science of climate change

•A guide to skepticism

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• More current information

• Past events

2012

8 February: The Totnes Transition. Adrian Porter, co-manager of Transition Streets in Totnes, England (where the Transition Movement began) will talk about the Totnes experience and how a Transition Streets project could work for Kingston (and other Tasmanian towns). 7 pm on Wednesday 8 February at the Twin Ovals Function Centre, Lightwood Drive (off Kingston View Drive), Kingston.

21 February: Climate Commission Community Forum featuring Tim Flannery (Launceston). Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, will lead the Commissioners in a community forum - your opportunity to ask questions and share ideas with the commissioners. At Earl Arts Centre, 10 Earl St, 5.30-7pm (doors open from 5pm).

22 February: Climate Commission Community Forum featuring Tim Flannery (Hobart). Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner, Professor Tim Flannery, will lead the Commissioners in a community forum - your opportunity to ask questions and share ideas with the commissioners. At Hobart Town Hall, Macquarie St, 5.30-7pm (doors open from 5pm)

13 March: Nicole Foss on the current global crisis (Hobart). As co-editor of The Automatic Earth (where she writes under the name Stoneleigh), Nicole M. Foss has written about the causes and implications of the global credit crunch in terms of finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik. She was previously editor of The Oil Drum Canada. She currently runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, focusing on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology, a diploma in air and water pollution control and an LLM in international law. Hear her speak at the Centenary Lecture Theatre, University of Tasmania (Sandy Bay) from 7pm.

15 March: Nicole Foss on the current global crisis (Launceston). As co-editor of The Automatic Earth (where she writes under the name Stoneleigh), Nicole M. Foss has written about the causes and implications of the global credit crunch in terms of finance, energy, environment, psychology, population and real politik. She was previously editor of The Oil Drum Canada. She currently runs the Agri-Energy Producers' Association of Ontario, focusing on farm-based biogas projects and grid connections for renewable energy. Her academic qualifications include a BSc in biology, a diploma in air and water pollution control and an LLM in international law. Hear her speak at the Lecture Theatre 9, University of Tasmania (Newnham) from 7pm.