PPH cites UMaine Climate Futures Report in article about Portland ... - University of Maine
PPH cites UMaine Climate Futures Report in article about Portland heat wave - UMaine News - University of Maine
PPH cites UMaine Climate Futures Report in article about Portland heat wave
In an article about the heat wave in Portland breaking after 32 days, the Portland Press Herald cited information from the University of Maine’s 2020 update to its Maine’s Climate Future report showing that a changing climate could continue to transform Maine and its waterfronts in the coming years.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.