Climate Tasmania

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

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Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project (originally named The Climate Project), founded by Al Gore, came to Australia in 2006. There are five Al Gore-trained Climate Reality volunteer presenters in Tasmania. To book a presentation for your school, community or workplace group, email Sustainable Living Tasmania or telephone (03) 62345566. The Climate Reality Project is administered in Australia by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

A banker’s thoughts on the science of climate

It’s fine for a banker to endow us with his wisdom on financial matters. It’s not fine when he uses his platform to contradict the prevailing science of climate change. [13 December 2011 | Peter Boyer]
A couple of weeks ago David Murray, chairman of Australia’s Future Fund and long-serving former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, [...]

So who’s the old misery-guts?

We hear much about alarmist doomsayers predicting the end of the world, but the climate-energy crisis is something we should feel positive about. [7 June 2011 | Peter Boyer]
Here we are in the Hundred Acre Wood, sheltered at last from the furious wind, while Piglet listens nervously to the roaring of the gale in the [...]

A glimmer of light in the murky haze

Sometimes governments get it right. Climate Futures for Tasmania was an investment that is already paying off, in high-quality data about our future. [29 March 2011 | Peter Boyer]
All the angry noise about alarmism and a carbon tax doesn’t leave a lot to cheer about in the climate scene these days, so it comes as [...]