Climate Tasmania

Australia’s national climate research agencies have issued their direst warning yet about the state of the climate, but who’s listening? [20 March 2012 | Peter Boyer]
The most remarkable thing about last week’s deceptively-brief “State of the Climate” report is not what it had to say — shocking though that is — but the political context in [...]

The smalltalk of government and corporate leaders masks a potential crisis in the supply of liquid fuels in Australia. [6 March 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Tasmanians should be shielded from rising petrol prices, says RACT spokesman Vince Taskunas, who thinks retailers have kept the cost of this vital commodity artificially high.
His views about local retailers may [...]

Government support for the rebuilding of our communities is inadequate, but the Transition movement is stepping into the breach. [7 February 2012 | Peter Boyer]
There are an awful lot of ways we can go about reducing our carbon pollution. We can rely on governments to impose various measures from above, or we can do any [...]