Climate Tasmania

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

Titanic: a centennial reflection aboard Spaceship Earth

[2 February 2012 | Arthur Marcel]

WIKIPEDIA: “The RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States, and sank on 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.”
The following essay [...]

A vote with consequences

The passage of carbon pricing legislation through the House of Representatives is a big step forward. [18 October 2011 | Peter Boyer]
There are the optimists among us, and then there’s the rest. I’ve always considered myself optimistic, which is why I’m applauding the seismic shift that happened in Canberra last week.
I had thought I’d devote [...]

The overlooked emissions that we need to account for

Carbon reduction measures won’t be enough to get us to our targets while we continue to overlook significant emission sources. [15 March 2011 | Peter Boyer]
If ever there was an issue custom-designed for political carnage, it’s human-induced climate change.
In the battle to secure effective policy to cut carbon emissions, John Howard, Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin [...]