Mayewski quoted in BDN editorial on climate change
Paul Mayewski, Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Climate change is already happening and it’s worse than predicted.” “The weather and climate is the greatest security issue we currently face,” Mayewski said during a recent BDN editorial board event. He pointed out that climate changes contributed to piracy off the coast of Somalia as the pirates sought other means to make money when they could no longer farm. It contributed to the 2010 Middle East protests known as the Arab Spring when food prices soared because of a scarcity of commodity crops caused by droughts in many countries, including China and Russia, and torrential rains in others, such as Canada and Brazil, the editorial states.