Monthly Archives: October 2018

The government needs our help to lead

Tasmania’s climate legislation needs some backbone. In the endless argument over climate action the word most commonly bandied about is leadership. Many want to claim that mantle for themselves or their country, but what exactly is it? What does it mean … Continue reading

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Geoengineering: welcome to a brave new world

With climate change now belatedly in the political spotlight, we need to focus on a new factor which dramatically raises the stakes. Climate change is now – finally – the dominant political issue it should always have been in this … Continue reading

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IPCC gives us just a decade to fix things

…but who’s listening? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us that dangerous climate change will be unavoidable without a rapid, powerful and unprecedented global effort, starting now. Our government’s response can best be described as a shrug. Coming at … Continue reading

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