UMaine Climate Change Report Featured by MPBN, AP

Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” a new report from the University of Maine, was featured in stories by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the Associated Press. The report highlights the effects of climate change in Maine, such as intense precipitation events, warming temperatures in the atmosphere and ocean, and rising sea levels. Ivan Fernandez, a professor in the UMaine School of Forest Resources, Climate Change Institute and School of Food and Agriculture, is one of the report’s authors. He said the next 35 years will likely bring as much change to the state’s climate as the last 100. Fernandez said those changes included about three degrees in temperature warming, two weeks longer of a growing season and a sea level rise of about six-tenths of a foot, the AP reported. Seacoast Online, I-95 (95.7 FM), WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) and WRAL-TV (in North Carolina) carried the AP article. A Foster’s Daily Democrat article also cited the study.