Maine's Climate Future 2020 Update

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• Personal Author:
  Fernandez, Ivan ; Birkel, Sean ; Schmitt, Catherine ; Simonson, Julia ; Lyon, Brad ; Pershing, Andrew ; Stancioff, Esperanza ; Jacobson, George ; Mayewski, Paul
• NOAA Program & Office:
  Sea Grant ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Sea Grant Program:
  MEU (Maine Sea Grant)
• Description:
  Climate change is a glob phenomenon, and its effects in Maine must be understood in the context of changes taking place throughout the world. Since 1990, the world has learned about the consequences of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere for our planetary climate system, most notably through a series of reports from the United Nations Intergovernment​al Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These recent reports on climate change have consistently told us that: ■ atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing because of human actions, ■ they are influencing the climate in unprecedented ways, ■ there is increasing evidence that these changes are accelerating, ■ we have not begun to implement sufficient actions to alter our climate trajectory, and ■ we are heading for a planetary condition no humans have ever experienced. This publication discusses how Maine's climate continues to change, and fast.
• Sea Grant Document Number:
  MEU-T-20-001
• Document Type:
  Technical Report
• Rights Information:
  Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c268ffab1e0fa01ca551e7e47c6f59def6b68a2f8a300dfca7608595307dc69f
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/38547/noaa_38547_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.65 MB ]