Climate Tasmania

Carl Sagan showed us all how inspiring science can be. [8 May 2012 | Peter Boyer]
Flickering black and white reception made it hard to be enthusiastic about television in rural Tasmania in 1982. But for 13 wonderful weeks that winter, I was transfixed by a show about pretty well everything, featuring a cheerful, irrepressible American [...]

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 Climate Commission’s visit to Hobart was a welcome vindication of good science. [28 February 2012 | Peter Boyer]
In case you missed it, the Climate Commission roadshow rolled into town last week. Tim Flannery and four other commissioners fronted public forums in Launceston and Hobart to explain what climate change means for Tasmania.
From where I [...]