In a much-anticipated report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the world will need to take dramatic and drastic steps to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Featured prominently in the report is a discussion of a range of techniques for removing carbon dioxide from the air, called Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) […]
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Conservatives ignored William Nordhaus when he offered tools to fight global warming
The awarding of a Nobel prize in economics this week to William Nordhaus — the first economist to develop a model of how the climate and the global economy are linked – highlights a tremendous lost opportunity to fight climate change. Decades ago, Nordhaus’s work provided a set of tools that should have appealed to […]
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The chances are slim that the world will reverse rising temperatures
An international body of nearly 100 climate scientists convened by the United Nations have issued a stern warning to the rest of the world. Unless governments around the globe undertake “unprecedented” action to reverse it, Earth’s temperatures will soar upwards of 1.5-degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, over preindustrial levels by the end of the […]
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Trump administration predicts 7-degree rise in global temperatures
WASHINGTON — Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century. A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according […]
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Weak government response to ticks threatens public health
Maine’s invasion came early this year. In recent hotbeds of tick activity – from Scarborough to Belfast and Brewer – people say they spotted the eight-legged arachnid before spring. They noticed the ticks – which look like moving poppyseeds – encroaching on roads, beaches, playgrounds, cemeteries and library floors. They saw them clinging to dogs, […]
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Climate change communication workshop to be held at CEBE in Norway
NORWAY — The Maine Climate Table, in partnership with GrowSmart Maine and the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, will present a climate change communication workshop from 8 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 16. Based on extensive Maine-specific social research conducted by a team of strategic communication professionals, this half-day training workshop includes information on modern […]
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Are fresh mussels from the ocean a thing of the past?
As soon as I was old enough to scramble down to the tidal pools in front of my grandparent’s house in Harpswell, I was in charge of plucking fresh mussels off our front rocks for my grandmother to cook for dinner. I would come up just minutes later to the kitchen with barnacle-scraped feet, carrying […]
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Bruce Poliquin backs GOP bid to smother carbon tax
Maine lawmakers split this week on a U.S. House vote to condemn the idea of a carbon tax to fight climate change, though no serious effort has been made to impose it — and there’s no chance the Republican-controlled Congress or President Donald Trump would approve. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a two-term GOP lawmaker from […]
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Bates nearing its carbon-neutral goal
John Rasmussen, energy manager at the Bates College facility services, points out a new burner on an old boiler in the Cullen Maintenance Center on Wednesday afternoon. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — After its first full winter using a new fuel oil created by turning plants into a burnable liquid, Bates College officials say they […]
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Climate change denier
Cal Thomas’ March 18 column arguing that climate science isn’t settled ends with an invitation to read a book that will make the reader an “informed climate change denier.” That is an oxymoron. Climate change is constant. The Earth experiences ice ages and periods of warm weather where no ice exists. That is settled science. […]