Such a future would see these fires destroy Tasmania’s globally unique rainforests and mesmerising alpine heathlands. Tasmania’s world heritage area was our Great Barrier Reef, and, like the Great Barrier Reef, it seemed doomed by climate change. The Tasmanian fires have attracted little national media attention because there has been as yet, thankfully, no loss of life and only a handful of homes burnt. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP“This is coal,” Morrison began babbling. When Scott Morrison visited Tasmania yesterday he wasn’t photographed holding a lump of coal up in Geeveston.

Source: The Guardian February 04, 2019 17:00 UTC