ORONO (AP) — A University of Maine report about the effect of climate change on the state of Maine says environmental changes due to a warmer climate will accelerate here in the coming years.
Professor Ivan Fernandez of the university’s plant, soil and environmental science department is one of the authors of the report.
He says the next 35 years will likely bring as much change to the state’s climate as the last 100. Fernandez says those changes included about three degrees in temperature warming, two weeks longer of a growing season and a sea level rise of about sixtenths of a foot.
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