Climate Tasmania

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

Garnaut: greenhouse science is “beyond reasonable doubt”

Ross Garnaut’s careful appraisal of climate science finds that evidence supporting decisive action has strengthened over the past three years. [22 March 2011 | Peter Boyer]
The capacity Hobart audience turning out earlier this month to hear Professor Ross Garnaut on the current state of climate change science was testament to our crying need for a [...]

A faint glimmer through a murky haze

Australian politics is much preoccupied with climate change these days, but so far it’s nearly all noise. A new carbon price proposal offers some faint hope. [16 February 2010 | Peter Boyer]
The climate debate is getting noisy . Before, it mostly took the form of conference papers and blog-site comments about the science. Now the volume [...]

In rejecting reason, climate deniers are taking a dangerous path

Denying a human factor in climate change is a win for instinct over reason. People in authority who choose the path of unreason, taking refuge in denial and ignoring the expert knowledge available to them, are putting our future in jeopardy. [5 January 2010 | Peter Boyer]
What’s natural, and what isn’t? If we take carbon from natural storages [...]