Climate change research cited in Press Herald article
Climate change research from the University of Maine was cited in the Portland Press Herald article, “Climate change becomes a matter of mental health.” The article cited a study by three UMaine professors — Mark Anderson, Caroline Noblet and Mario Teisl — on environment and values from the summer of 2010. The study, which was published in the Maine Policy Review in 2012, found 67 percent of residents are concerned about the effect of global warming on Maine, while about 17 percent said they weren’t concerned, according to the article. David Hart, director of the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at UMaine, also was quoted in the article. “Many people feel despair about many things in the world and climate change is one of them. But there are really outstanding researchers and public intellectuals that would probably make the case that there are opportunities with climate change. All you have to do is think about Maine and its agriculture,” he said, adding the state will have a longer growing season and heating bills could drop. UMaine’s Climate Change Institute is a hotbed for these kinds of conversations and for explorations of not just attitudes toward climate change, but solutions, the article states. Research by Paul Roscoe, an anthropologist who teaches a course called Human Dimensions of Climate Change; and Cindy Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology who works with CCI, also was cited.