Climate Tasmania

The Murray-Darling floods may seem like an anomaly, but they fit within the IPCC pattern for climate change in Australia. [13 March 2012 | Peter Boyer]
The long-suffering people of the Murray-Darling basin don’t need to be told that Australia’s biggest river system is now awash with water.
Two years ago the system looked broken, barely alive [...]

The big floods have roused a hornets’ nest over their link to climate change and the potential culpability of coal miners. [1 February | Peter Boyer]
We all know that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, any more than one flood makes a climate catastrophe. Senator Eric Abetz was quick to point this out in a [...]

Hope is the message that emerges from a sweeping analysis of our present time on Earth. This is Tim Flannery’s best book yet.
[30 September 2010 | Peter Boyer]
Tim Flannery’s new book, Here on Earth, is the story of life on Planet Earth. Themes don’t come any bigger than this, so Flannery sensibly draws on the [...]