The Bangor Daily News spoke with Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for an article about a new study that found recent nor’easters could have been fueled by warming temperatures in the Arctic. Birkel said while a scientific cause-and-effect between the warming Arctic read more Birkel, Climate Reanalyzer cited in BDN article on warming arctic fueling nor’easters