Climate Tasmania

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

Setting the agenda for the Tasmanian climate policy debate

Tasmanians seeking an effective climate action policy now have something to get their teeth into. A broad-based group has established ten strategies to make the island carbon-neutral by 2050. [20 October 2009 | Peter Boyer]
On a sunny Saturday morning a couple of weekends ago, about 50 people got together in Hobart to talk about climate change. [...]

Why we need to embrace the 350 target, and go for it

Government climate policies are a road to ruin, according to a UN study. If we want to avoid dangerous climate change we must try to bring CO2 concentrations down to 350 parts per million. [13 October 2009 | Peter Boyer]
If Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull are feeling the heat over the climate summit in Copenhagen in [...]

Politicians on climate: a failure of wit, will and imagination

At every turn we are reminded of how little politicians know, or even care, about today’s climate emergency. Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson have given us a prime example. [22 September 2009 | Peter Boyer]
Our politicians are failing us. Our administrations are failing us. Our corporate leaders are failing us. In unison, they are marching ever [...]