by Juliet Eilperin Washington Post news story WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning. The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment Read More
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June 29, 2017: “The Future of Maine’s Fisheries” Roundtable, Portland
The Future of Maine’s Fisheries: Threats Posed by Federal Budget Cuts How will Maine’s economy and communities be affected? Thanks to all who joined us for a roundtable discussion about the future of Maine’s fisheries. This event was free and open to the public. Thursday, June 29 6:00 – 7:30 PM Light refreshments at 5:30 PM Talbot Read More
Trump’s Proposed NOAA Cuts Imperil Wells Reserve in Maine
The president wants to end the funding that covers 70% of the operating costs for the wildlife sites used by the public, researchers and educators. by Colin Woodard, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story The Wells Reserve at Laudholm could become a casualty of a Trump administration plan to slash the budget of the Read More
NOAA Budget Cuts Would Have High Cost for Maine
Rolling back spending on fisheries management, marine research and weather forecasting would disrupt our state’s fishing industry. Portland Press Herald editorial Though funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amounts to less than one-half of 1 percent of discretionary federal spending, it pays outsize dividends for Maine. The people at the center of our Read More
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Questions Basic Facts About Climate Change
by Geoff Brumfiel Maine Public news story President Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming. “I would not agree that [CO2] is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Scott Pruitt said Thursday in an interview with Read More
Trump’s Proposed NOAA Cuts Imperil Wells Reserve in Maine
The president wants to end the funding that covers 70% of the operating costs for the wildlife sites used by the public, researchers and educators. By Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story The Wells Reserve at Laudholm could become a casualty of a Trump administration plan to slash the budget of the Read More
Climate Change Deniers Aim to Silence Science
The new president wants to cut funding to agencies like NASA and NOAA. By Alan Caron Portland Press Herald column As Maine has struggled to build a 21st century economy, we’ve faced many challenges, most of them man-made and some geographic. We’ve been painfully slow to accept how the world is changing around us, and unwilling Read More
What Qualifies as Scientific Authority?
“Listen, I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change,” Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) “…this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn’t mean anything.” Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Stephen Colbert, satirist Recently I sat dumbfounded watching Marco Rubio tell South Floridians about all Read More
Record February Warmth Seen as Evidence of Climate Change
February 2016 obliterated old marks by a wide margin, NOAA says. By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press news story WASHINGTON — Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists warned that the climate may have moved into a new and hotter neighborhood. This was not just another of the drumbeat of 10 straight broken Read More
