Falmouth native Joel Clement says Interior Department officials retaliated against him in 2017 for his outspoken comments on the threat posed by climate change.
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Sea-level rise hurting Maine’s waterfront real estate values
A study released this week show Maine lost about $70 million in appreciated waterfront property values from 2005 to 2017.
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Mainers take to ‘anxiety baking’ to cope in uncertain times
With bad news coming from seemingly every corner – Washington, Wall Street, the environment – some breadmaking, cooking and consuming food is in order.
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Democrats looking to finally tackle climate impacts to Gulf of Maine
Lawmakers are optimistic bills to implement bipartisan commission’s 2014 recommendations will advance after years of delay.
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Bill seeks public vote on borrowing $50 million to address sea level change in Maine
Other bills include proposals to require MaineCare to provide coverage for legal abortion services, and to make vehicle inspections on new cars valid for two years.
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Climate change needs action not denial
The federal government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment, released the day after Thanksgiving, puts an exclamation point to what most of us already knew. This country (not to mention the rest of the world) faces an existential threat from climate change that is far more grave than North Korean nukes, unfair Chinese trade practices, Russian-cyber meddling […]
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Five myths about climate change
The Fourth National Climate Assessment- the work of 13 federal agencies and more than 350 scientists, including myself – is clear: The Earth is warming faster than at any time in human history, and we’re the ones causing it. Climate change is already affecting people, and the more carbon we produce, the more dangerous the […]
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Changing climate to put further pressure on New England, federal report predicts
New England’s forests, fisheries and cultural traditions are already experiencing significant disruptions from a changing climate and will face additional transformation over the coming decades, according to a federal report released Friday. Northeastern states are seeing some of the largest changes in the nation, yet conditions are shifting even faster in New England than the region […]
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National carbon tax needed, now
Special interest, conspiracy, fraud, hypocrite, elite. Those words trigger people to react in different ways depending on individual values and cultural identity. There is only so much information anyone’s mind can process; therefore, people take mental shortcuts in this information-crazy world. It pays to step back and treat some information differently. The Intergovernmental Panel on […]
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Trouble brewing: Climate change could double the price of beer
WASHINGTON — Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life’s little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future. Losses of barley yield can be as much as 17 […]