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Introduction to Global Climate Change
An Introduction to Climate Change was prepared by CCI graduate students as a broad overview of the climate change issue for distribution to the general public during the CC21 conference in 2008.
This document discusses the following issues: What is climate?; What are the natural factors that lead to climate change; How much have humans affected climate?; How have natural anthropogenic forcings impacted climate since 1860?; What are the projected changes for the future climate?
To learn more, download and read an Introduction to Global Climate Change:
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News &Events
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April 25, 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE DAY
Announcing the 6th Annual Climate Change Science Day at the University of Maine on May 2, 2013. This open house will include tours and demonstrations aimed at high school students and will feature... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Mayewski - Honorary Member of American Polar Society
Dr. Paul Mayewski was made Honorary Member of the American Polar Society after delivering the keynote address at the American Polar Society 75th Anniversary Celebration at Woods Hole, Mass. ... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Denton Among Winners of Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
Professor George Denton of the Climate Change Institute, and co-authors Philip Conkling, Richard Alley and Wallace Broecker are recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for “The... | Read more...
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April 8, 2013
Penobscot Bay Pilot Reports on UMaine Climate Change Researchers Alaska Trip - Karl Kreutz
The Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote an article about the upcoming trip to Alaska by University of Maine climate change researchers to collect an ice core record of Arctic climate change over the past... | Read more... -
March 29, 2013
Island life - Studying prehistoric fish and animal bones to help understand their roles in a food chain altered by climate change - Catherine West
Catherine West was a junior history major at Bryn Mawr when she jumped at the chance to be a field school student during a 1998 dig at a prehistoric Aleut site on Unalaska Island. As part of that... | Read more... -
March 28, 2013
Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing. The Cryosphere, 7, 2, 515-535. doi:10.5194/tc-7-515-2013. - Dixon/Mayewski et al.
This study provides a baseline from which changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over Antarctica can be monitored under expected warming scenarios and continued intensification of industrial... | Read more...
