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25.01.2022 CAN WE EMBRACE CARBON MANAGEMENT AS A FOREST INDUSTRY? The role of carbon storage in the future management of our forests is set to increase dramatically as Australias new carbon pricing regime and other measures to manage soil and tree carbon take hold, as a forum was told in Hobart last week. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
25.01.2022 "URBAN LIFE TODAY is shaped by personal needs personal transport, personal workspaces and personal entertainment. We come together at work, meetings and sporting fixtures, but our social lives are mostly limited to family or close friends. Thats what makes the Transition Movement so valuable." READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
24.01.2022 THE TALE OF THE TITANIC, 100 years old in April, perhaps the best-known historic disaster in popular memory today, is now a classic metaphor for the iconic stuff-up. It perfectly describes the way the worlds governments are tackling the issue of global warming. READ ARTHUR MARCELS CAUTIONARY TALE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA, http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
21.01.2022 "Gleaming white by day, brilliantly luminescent by night, Costa Concordia oozed permanence, certainty and success. And then it hit a rock. As its crew were found wanting, passengers had to rely on their own initiative to help themselves and each other." GO TO CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au TO SEE what the Tasmanian government can learn from the Costa Concordia experience and a little group called Climate Action Hobart.
20.01.2022 ON BEING AN OPTIMIST IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES: Are we hard-wired to ignore problems till they happen? A game theory research project and a neurological study suggest we are. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
19.01.2022 WHATS TO BE DONE? The party continues despite overwhelming scientific evidence that were in deep poo. Everyones getting sick of the same old climate rhetoric, but what do you do when you see the writing on the wall? READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
19.01.2022 "MY CHILDHOOD ABOUNDED WITH MORAL TALES, one of them about a cricket that prepared for harder times and a grasshopper that frolicked all summer and came to a sticky end. It stuck with me through all the profligate second half of the last century, a tiny note of caution amid all that noisy excess. Over the years Ive found that being frugal has its own rewards." READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
18.01.2022 "Were all past masters at procrastination. When we put our political representatives and their delegates under the pump for their failure to get something done, such as a climate agreement at Durban, we may as well be holding a mirror up to ourselves." READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
17.01.2022 "GALILEO PUBLISHED HIS ARGUMENT for a sun-centred universe in 1632; it was another 100 years before the new theory finally became mainstream belief among Catholics. Heaven forbid that it should take as long for us to accept that humans change climate." READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
17.01.2022 POSITIVE THINKING IN TRYING TIMES: Theres no point denying it the worlds governments cannot resolve the environmental damage caused by our long years of economic prosperity. But we can get strength from each other and from the natural world, as many people are demonstrating daily. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
15.01.2022 DAVID MURRAY, former Commonwealth Bank CEO and now in charge of $90 billion in superannuation assets, thinks that climate change action is too big a risk. But whats the risk of sitting on our hands? READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA,
15.01.2022 Latest C-T post: Want to save money? Save energy! Tasmanias home energy programs are a tiny first step, but theyre real value for money.
15.01.2022 NEXT WEEK ON CLIMATE TASMANIA
14.01.2022 EUROPE IS NOW CHARGING AIRLINES FOR CARBON EMISSIONS, which will add something under 20 euros to the price of a ticket (though Australians may be exempt). Governments and airlines arent happy. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
14.01.2022 SO WE HAVE A CARBON TAX. WHAT NOW? With a carbon price now embedded in Australian law we seem to be moving to a new national mindset. With the backslapping over, whats in store for us? Our nation has got the job done, says Julia, but shes wrong. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
13.01.2022 A GLOBAL RUMBLE OUT OF CALIFORNIA There was a small tremor last month that started right on the San Andreas fault at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco. It wasnt a typical shock. It began slowly and kept on rumbling. Weeks later its still rumbling. It may go on for years. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA
11.01.2022 Wind turbines atop Marine Board Building
10.01.2022 CONTROVERSY! My post about the Berkeley temperature research got some serious attention - check out the Mercury website
08.01.2022 HUMAN ENLIGHTENMENT IS A FRAGILE THING. The suffering of the Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavilov at Stalins hands had disastrous consequences for Russian science. Today, some serious resources are being applied to an anti-science campaign in which legal action is being used against scientists and their work. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
08.01.2022 Soliman At Maamar is a 15-year-old resident of Hobart, arrived a few months ago with his parents, who has already joined the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and attended its recent national congress in Brisbane. Read his lively account of this youthful assembly at CLIMATE TASMANIA
01.01.2022 THE HUGE ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET contains enough water to raise sea levels world-wide by over 60 metres. What has scientists really focused is the possibility that a warming ocean may cause massive and rapid ice loss. READ MORE AT CLIMATE TASMANIA http://www.climatetasmania.com.au
