Mayewski discusses climate change with Penobscot Bay Press
Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with the Penobscot Bay Press about climate change, including the Paris Agreement and the Antarctic Peninsula. Mayewski discussed the effects of politics on U.S. climate change action and offered insight into the complex science behind determining humans’ effect on the world’s warming oceans, the changing jet stream, and the barrier between the cold air in the north and warm air in the south, the article states. “Most people think of scientists [as working] in a lab,” Mayewski said. “I had a Ph.D. for 10 years before I thought of myself as a scientist.” A research scientist enamored with “the thrill of going to unexplored regions, and the thrill that whatever you find is new,” Mayewski has headed research expeditions since 1972 into parts of Antarctica, Greenland, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, the Andes and South Georgia Island by way of sailboat from the Falkland Islands, the article states. Mayewski shares his research and adventures through talks all over the world aimed at the nonscientific public. “The way people appreciate climate change is if you bring it to where they live,” he said.