BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 1, 2021
To understand the consequences of near term policy decisions and what the future may hold for a child born today by the end of the century, we spoke with more than a dozen experts across a variety of disciplines about the possible impacts of climate change on Maine. They described more toxic lakes and fewer beaches, exploding populations of ticks and collapsing populations of moose and lobster. They saw a state battered by once-in-a-century storms nearly every year as coastal residents flee inland. All were quick to acknowledge the limits of any attempt to predict the future. But the basics of climate change — carbon emissions cause the planet to warm — have been known for more than a century. And recent science has done little to change that understanding, except to add urgency.