provinceorstate:tasmania

Tasmania is burning. The climate disaster future has arrived while those in power laugh at us | Richard Flanagan
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/05/tasmania-is-burning-the-climate-disaster-future-has-arrived-while-those

Five years ago I was contacted by a stranger, Prof Peter Davies, an eminent water scientist. He wanted to meet because he had news he thought would interest me. The night we met Davies told me that the south-west of Tasmania – the island’s vast, uninhabited and globally unique wildland, the heart of its world heritage area – was dying. The iconic habitats of rainforest, button grass plains, and heathlands had begun to vanish because of climate change. I was shocked. I had understood that climate change’s effects on Tasmania would be significant but not disastrous; the changes mitigated by Tasmania being surrounded by seas that were not heating as quickly as others: the island’s west would get wetter, the east a little warmer and drier, but compared to much of the world it didn’t seem (...)

Antarctic’s future in doubt after plan for world’s biggest marine reserve is blocked | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/plan-create-worlds-biggest-nature-reserve-antarctic-rejected

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A plan to turn a huge tract of pristine Antarctic ocean into the world’s biggest sanctuary has been rejected, throwing the future of one of the Earth’s most important ecosystems into doubt.

Environmental groups said Russia, China and Norway had played a part in blocking the proposal, with the other 22 members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, the organisation set up to protect Antarctic waters, backing the proposal.

The 1.8m sq km reserve – five times the size of Germany – would have banned all fishing in a vast area of the Weddell Sea and parts of the Antarctic peninsula, safeguarding species including penguins, killer whales, leopard seals and blue whales.

Experts said it would also have played a key role in tackling climate change, as the seas around the Antarctic soak up huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But following days of talks in Hobart in Tasmania, the CCAMLR rejected the plan, which needed unanimous agreement to pass.

Show 620 (Radio Campus Paris)
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/radia/show-620-radio-campus-paris-

Put Use When Can : It is a cold and rainy December evening in Paris and we’re sitting in the studio at Radio Campus, just round the corner from the Place des Vosges.The French radio artist Julia Drouhin is over from Tasmania. We have just finished recording our monthly F-Air Play session, where the artist and composer Ocean Viva Silver set us some sticky questions and we replied as best we could with a selection of field recordings, a thumb piano, voices, a small record player and a melodica. We have 45 minutes left in the studio before the next programme, so we decide to leave the microphones open and to play along to the creaks and squeaks of the studio chair and the friendly buzz of the mixing desk. Never waste a good opportunity we say to ourselves, Put.Use.When.Can.

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▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/radia/show-620-radio-campus-paris-_03407__1.mp3

’World’s Oldest Beer’ Brewed With Yeast from 18th Century Shipwreck – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/worlds-oldest-beer-brewed-yeast-18th-century-shipwreck

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Led by Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Conservator David Thurrowgood, the research team was able to extract live yeast from a bottle pulled from the wreck of the Sydney Cove, which sank in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania. The team then used the yeast to brew beer using recipes and techniques from the same period – calling the brew Preservation Ale.

“The yeast is unique to science, and has genetic links to European brewing, baking and wine yeast used before modern specialised strains were developed,” said Thurrowgood.

“The beer has a distinctly light and fresh flavour, giving a taste that has not been sipped for 220 years.”

The team has also since baked a loaf of sourdough bread from the same yeast.

Maps are as much about art – and lies – as science

▻http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/maps-are-as-much-about-art-and-lies-as-science

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Maps are as much about art – and lies – as science
As a new exhibition at the British Library will show, the 20th century became the great age of the map – fuelled by war and travel
Stephen Bayley

Stephen Bayley

29 October 2016

Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line

The British Library, 4 November until 1 March 2017

In Australia, I have been told, the female pubic area is sometimes known as a ‘mapatasi’ because its triangular shape resembles a map of Tasmania. And since we are discussing cartography and the nether regions, it is wonderful to find in the British Library’s new exhibition, Maps and the 20th Century, that Countess Mountbatten wore knickers made out of second world war airmen’s silk escape maps.

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#cartographie #art #manipulation #exposition #british_library

Research findings back up Aboriginal legend on origin of Central Australian palm trees

▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-03/aboriginal-legend-palm-tree-origin-central-australia-research/6369832

The scientific world is stunned by research which backs an Aboriginal legend about how palm trees got to Central Australia.

Several years ago Tasmanian ecologist David Bowman did DNA tests on palm seeds from the outback and near Darwin.

Professor David Bowman, University of Tasmania
The results led him to conclude the seeds were carried to the Central Desert by humans up to 30,000 years ago.

Professor Bowman read an Aboriginal legend recorded in 1894 by pioneering German anthropologist and missionary Carl Strehlow, which was only recently translated, describing the “gods from the north” bringing the seeds to Palm Valley

#aborigènes #légende #australie

Fossil Free UTAS Student Occupation (2015)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/fossil-free-utas-student-occupation-2015

Students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the administration area of the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart from 1:30pm on Wednesday the 14th of October, 2015. They are refusing to leave...

Tasmania Wants To Use 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2020 | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/26/2996241/tasmania-renewable-energy-plan

Tasmania has given the climate community something to smile about after months of frowning toward Australia. Since being elected in September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been waging an anti-climate crusade. He’s abandoned the country’s long-held emissions reduction target, taken steps towards repealing the carbon emissions trading scheme, and started an international row with the likes of Al Gore and U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres over climate change’s role in this year’s intense, early season bushfires.

Amidst all that, Abbott also found time to slash funding for renewable energy. Now Tasmania, Australia’s island state off the southeastern edge of the continent, has taken it’s own initiative in the face of Abbott’s many setbacks and released a climate change strategy aimed at achieving 100 percent renewable power usage by 2020.

Tasmania’s new plan — known as the Climate Smart Tasmania plan — includes energy reduction targets across multiple sectors with an interim 2020 target to reduce carbon emissions to 35 percent below 1990 levels.

#climat #Tasmanie #Australie

Gay marriage beach BBQ ’great success’ in Tasmania
Over 200 people hit the beach for Australian state’s first ever barbecue in support of equal marriage legislation
03 December 2012 | By Matthew Jenkin
Hundreds attend Tasmania’s first Marriage Equality Beach BBQ
Photo by Rafael Manzanilla

Tasmania’s first Marriage Equality Beach BBQ has been hailed ’a great success’ after over 200 people attended.

Event organiser Helen Richardson said the popularity of the barbecue in the Australian state’s capital Hobart yesterday (2 December) shows marriage equality has strong community support.

’Today’s BBQ sent a message to Upper House members, particularly Jim Wilkinson in whose electorate the event was held, that marriage equality has strong support across the community.

’Supporters of marriage equality are saying loud and clear to Legislative Councillors who voted against the legislation, that we are in 2012 not 1912.

’It’s time all Tasmanians, regardless of sexual orientation, are able to marry their life partner.’

In September this year Tasmania became the first Australian state to pass marriage equality legislation through a lower house of parliament.

The bill was narrowly defeated by two votes in the Upper House and the state government has promised to re-introduce it in the New Year.

Speakers at the barbecue included Hobart Alderman, Helen Burnett, local resident, mum and same-sex partner, Jo Richardson, Australian Marriage Equality national convener, Rodney Croome and Rainbow Labor spokesperson, Robbie Moore.

Croome said marriage equality supporters will continue to advocate for reform up until the legislation returns, while Moore announced a marriage equality protest outside the office of Upper House member, Vanessa Goodwin, on 19 December.

Both Jim Wilkinson and Vanessa Goodwin voted against the State Government’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill.