Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert, speaking at Bates College recently, asserted that people are playing “a dangerous game” by “heating up the planet.” That is probably untrue but, regardless, is not relevant. All competent climate scientists know that humans contribute to climate change through land-use change (e.g., urbanization) and pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. But […]
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Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert talks climate change at Bates
LEWISTON — In exploring everything from the demise of Central American frogs to dying coral reefs across the globe, Elizabeth Kolbert has shouldered the role of trying to warn everyone else about something scientists already know: that human activity is wiping out an astonishing array of species. Speaking at Bates College on Monday, the Pulitzer […]
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King to host forum on climate change
BRIDGTON — A forum on climate change, health and Maine’s winter sports will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, March 28, at the Maine Lakes Science Center, 51 Willett Road. The second annual event, titled Fishing on Thin Ice Forum, will be hosted by U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, Laura Dorle of Environment Maine, David […]
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Humans at fault for climate change?
The Sun Journal has an intriguing article about Antarctica’s melting ice pack (Feb. 23). That article claimed that between 23 and 14 million years ago, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were believed to be about 500 parts per million or higher — some 20 percent higher than the 400 ppm today. I don’t believe humans living […]
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Preserve the planet as we know it
The Thursday, Dec. 17, issue of the Sun Journal carried tandem columns by Rich Lowry and Cal Thomas on the issue of climate change. Lowry dismissed the Paris accord while Thomas dismissed the phenomenon entirely. How does Thomas explain the gradually rising high-tide mark in Maine, the northward migration of lobsters in search of cooler […]
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Climate accord (yawn) settles … what?
Saving the planet has never been so easy. The Paris climate talks concluded in a rousing round of self-congratulation over an agreement that, we are told, is the first step toward keeping Earth habitable. If generating headlines and press releases about making history were the metric for anything, Paris might be as consequential — if […]
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Science makes more sense
I totally agree with what Nancy Willard wrote (Oct. 10) on the subject of climate change in her letter: “The evidence that climate change is real is insurmountable; it is happening now and will get worse.” Presumably, her focus is on human-generated change, as distinguished from change caused by natural processes. According to nasa.gov, a […]
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The world is a big place
Michael Brakey appears to think he has a good reason for being a denier of climate change (Sun Journal, Aug. 26). He wants to believe that the Earth’s heat records in July, as reported by NOAA, must be inaccurate because the Farmers’ Almanac is predicting another cold and nasty winter for New England. The only […]
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J. Weiss: Dodging climate change reality
James Richter’s excellent guest column (July 26) argued that Republican candidates should face climate-change reality because cutting emissions is economically beneficial. An analysis last week of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative demonstrated that charging for carbon emissions helped the economy and created tens of thousands of jobs in just a few years. That optimistic news […]
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GOP candidates should face reality of climate change
In 2012, Mitt Romney and almost all the other Republican candidates for president raised doubts about the causes and even the existence of global warming, and argued that the government should do nothing to alleviate the problem without further research. This was strange. Only a few years earlier, Romney, along with Newt Gingrich, John McCain […]