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Climate Change Impacts on Maine

How will Global Warming of 2°C affect Maine?
From Prof. Raymond Bradley, Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar, and Kathryn Woods, Climate System Research Center (CSRC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
What Climate Change Means for Maine
From the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Breaks down how climate change will affect Maine into categories, including Health, Ecosystems, and Agriculture.
Climate Change Institute | University of Maine
The Climate Change Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit on campus. Their website features news updates, research projects, and publications related to climate change in Maine and globally.
Maine Climate News
From the University of Maine Cooperative Extension & Climate Change Institute. Features neutral news coverage related to climate change, including climate & weather updates and research from UMaine.
Maine Department of Environmental Protection- Climate Change
Contains information from the State of Maine regarding climate change, including data, action items, and a Maine Adaptation Toolkit- 'a centralized source for information on implementing adaptation measures or strategies'.

Climate Change in the News

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Understanding the IPCC Report

Global Warming of 1.5 °C
From the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The page includes the full text of the IPCC report, Global Warming to 1.5°C, summaries, and an FAQ.
The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
From Carbon Brief. An interactive, visual explanation of the science reported in the IPCC report. Breaks down impacts categorically and by continent.
Seven Things You Should Know About the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report and its Policy Implications
From Carbon Brief. Part of a series of reports covering the IPCC SR15.
Half a Degree and a World Apart: The Difference in Climate Impacts Between 1.5˚C and 2˚C of Warming
From World Resources Institute (WRI). Explains the differences between a 1.5°C and 2°C increase in global temperatures.

United States Climate Assessment

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century. The newest volume focuses on the impacts and risks faced by the United States in the face of global climate change across 16 national topic chapters (water, air quality, transportation, health, coastal impacts, etc.) and 10 regional chapters.

Read the Assessment here:
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptations in the United States

Read reports on the assessment here:

New federal climate assessment for U.S. released
Science Daily
The Three Most Chilling Conclusions From the Climate Report
The Atlantic
Report by 13 U.S. Agencies Warns of Dire Economic Effects from Climate Change
Insurance Journal

Web Resources

Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is a site that covers the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy using a wide range of content, including science explainers, interviews, analysis and factchecks, as well as daily and weekly email summaries of newspaper and online coverage.
Images of Change
From NASA. See images of landscapes from around the world affected by climate change, including eroded beaches in Texas, flooded villages in India, and fire damage in Botswana.
Ted Talks | Climate Change: Oh It's Real
A Ted Talks playlist covering all aspects of global climate change, including "Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights" with Mary Robinson and "Time-lapse Proof of Extreme Ice Loss" with James Balog.

Books in Fogler

Cover of Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know

Cover of Coasts in Crisis: a Global Challenge

Cover of Rising Tides Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century

Cover of the eBook Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

Cover of Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities

Cover of Climate Change and the Oceanic Carbon Cycle

Cover of Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward

Read the Research

Climate Change is an interdisciplinary topic; many databases Fogler subscribes to will cover the topic. Use these databases to begin your search for articles on climate change:

Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Collection
PAIS - covers public & social policy
SpringerLink
Web of Science

Climate Change Institute in UMaine Digital Commons
Read articles written by faculty members in the Climate Change Institute available through UMaine's Digital Commons.

Articles of Interest

Thornton, P. K., Ericksen, P. J., Herrero, M., & Challinor, A. J. (2014). Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: A review. Global Change Biology, 20(11), 3313-3328. doi :10.1111/gcb.12581

Coral Bleaching

Hughes, T. P., Barnes, M. L., Bellwood, D. R., Cinner, J. E., Cumming, G. S., Jackson, J. B. C., ...Scheffer, M. (2017). Coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature, 546(7656), 82+.

Hughes, T. P., Kerry, J. T., lvarez-Noriega, M., lvarez-Romero, J. G., Anderson, K. D., Baird, A. H., ...Wilson, S. K. (2017). Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature, 543(7645), 373+.

Ecology

Pecl, G. T., Araújo, M. B., Bell, J. D., Blanchard, J., Bonebrake, T. C., Chen, I., . . . Williams, S. (2017). Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science, 355(6332). doi:10.1126/science.aai9214

Urban, M. C. (2015). Accelerating extinction risk from climate change. Science, 348(6234), 571 LP-573.

Human Dimensions

Vermeulen, S. J., Campbell, B. M., & Ingram, J. S. I. (2012). Climate Change and Food Systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37(1), 195–222.