Category Archives: Adaptation

A new generation tackles climate change

Posted on 18 September 2018 by Peter Boyer

With the final nail in the climate policy coffin driven home, younger Australians take up the battle Former CSIRO climate scientist John Church is now free of the constraints of government service and able to speak his mind. He did … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow’s weather: hot, stormy, fiery

Posted on 21 August 2018 by Peter Boyer

Science’s warnings about a warming Earth are getting sharper as each year brings new shocks. The Turnbull government must be on another planet. How do we feel about winter bushfires every year? That’s the sort of question we need to ask ourselves in … Continue reading →

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Struggling for words in the face of a crisis

Posted on 7 August 2018 by Peter Boyer

We seem paralysed and struck dumb by the monstrous crisis threatening life on Earth. A couple of bystanders at Manly Beach in the ABC’s revived War on Waste series said all we need to know about our all-too-human response to … Continue reading →

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