Author Archives: Climate Tasmania

How Tasmania can lead the world….

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Climate Tasmania

Slide presentation – supporting the development of stronger climate legislation for Tasmania. Continue reading →

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Hobart Public Meeting – Sept 25

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Climate Tasmania

The decoration at top and bottom of poster represents the barcode of climate change for Australia – from 1910 to 2017 (left to right). Dark Blue = coolest year.  Dark Red = warmest year. Please download poster HERE and share … Continue reading →

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The Global Climate Emergency in 5 charts

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Climate Tasmania

These 5 charts have been compiled by members of Climate Tasmania in an effort to distil the climate change challenge in an easy-to-digest form. Continue reading →

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Beefing up Tasmania’s climate legislation

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Climate Tasmania

This Summer’s weather and bushfire calamities along with the marine heatwave that is debilitating marine habitats and affecting our commercial fisheries have brought to the fore once again Tasmania’s acute vulnerability to climate change and the need for our state … Continue reading →

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Can Tasmania provide leadership on climate change?

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Political turmoil in Canberra in recent weeks has once again thrown the spotlight on Australia’s response to the Paris COP Agreement – whereby individual nations have agreed to take leadership in order to help restrain global emissions.

The following is text of a letter sent to all forty Tasmanian MPs on 18 September 2018. Continue reading →

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Geo-engineering forum at UTAS

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Geoengineering technologies are proposals to counteract climate change by removing CO2 from the atmosphere, or by reflecting sunlight away from the earth. This forum brings together scientists, philosophers, international lawyers and members of civil society to discuss the potential role … Continue reading →

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Don’t try to fix traffic congestion

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Speakers at Climate Tasmania’s well attended July 5 transport forum warned that trying to fix traffic congestion by catering for more cars is a costly and never ending, futile exercise. Dr Eliot Fishman (Institute for Sensible Transport) and Professor Jason … Continue reading →

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Transport Forum – July 5

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Many factors mesh together to create liveable, vibrant, sustainable cities and regions. We need to get beyond simplistic engineering solutions to today’s traffic problems. Here’s an opportunity to think • community health • social equity • climate change • technology … Continue reading →

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Snapshot of Tas power supply and demand

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Climate Tasmania

Below is the latest power generation snapshot facility kindly provided by Nemwatch. By hovering your cursor over the coloured bars you can now see not only how much power is currently being generated in Tasmania from various sources, you can … Continue reading →

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The growing human cost of climate change

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Climate Tasmania

To illustrate that climate change is happening apace, science has told us a lot about melting glaciers, habitat losses, unseasonable weather all over the globe, rising sea temperatures, Arctic melting… all of this with voluminous supporting data. Yet as we … Continue reading →

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