Climate Tasmania

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

Economists need some reality checks

How is it that with all the evidence about our climate and energy future, including diminishing oil reserves, economists still count on endless growth?

Ross Garnaut’s “diabolical” challenge

Ross Garnaut says we have a window of opportunity to meet the climate challenge, but it is a small, short-lived one and we need to act quickly. The difficulties are “diabolical”, he says.