Maine Climate Office News

Sea Ice-Albedo: Earth’s Chilling Reflection Last month, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the first ever map of polar sea ice thickness. While two-dimensional maps of sea ice extent have been available since 1979, this is the first project to present total ice thickness in addition to extent. The ESA plans to continue updating the […]

Today, 97 percent of American scientists agree that climate change is happening. According to a survey published in May 2011 by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, only 13 percent of Americans know of the near universality of this consensus. The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication is one of many emerging efforts addressing […]