climate change and public health maine’s climate future (and past)
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Climate Change and Public Health Maine’s Climate Future (and past). George L. Jacobson Professor Emeritus of Biology, Ecology, and Climate Change Maine State Climatologist Climate Change Institute The University of Maine April 7, 2010. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Climate Change and Public Health
Maine’s Climate Future(and past)
George L. JacobsonProfessor Emeritus of Biology, Ecology, and Climate
ChangeMaine State Climatologist
Climate Change InstituteThe University of Maine
April 7, 2010
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Climate Change Institute (formerly Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies)
• Climatology/Paleoclimatology• Historic climatology• Terrestrial paleoecology• Paleolimnology• Prehistoric archaeology• Glacial geology and glaciology • Atmospheric chemistry (incl. ice cores)• Geochemistry• Maine State Climatologist (GLJ)
“Maine Climate News” Web Site
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Climate Change InstituteThe University of Maine
Central question:What is the natural variability of the earth’s climate, and what are the underlying mechanisms?
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Weather or climate?
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El Nino tendency over time(Nov. to Mar.)
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All-time state record low temperature (– 50 F) 16 Jan 2009
OFFICIAL RECORD
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20,000 years ago was the most recent glacial maximum
Maine under ice
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Regular ice ages characterize the past million years
(information derived from ocean sediments)
warm
cold
Present interglacial (Holocene)
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C.D. Keeling – IGY 1957
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390 ppm as of February 2010
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Projections show Maine becoming warmer and wetter in all regions of the state.
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Was this winter a taste of late-21st Century norms in Maine?
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Maine’s climate is highly compressed: equal to that of northern Europe
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Maine’s steep climate gradient produces interesting patterns of range limits in plants.
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Plant-hardiness zones have been shifting northward
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Lakes have become ice-free earlier in the year
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Range of deer ticks is spreading northward in recent years.
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Future change are just the opposite of what happened in the past 1000 years --- southward expansion of spruce during a
cool period.
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Sea-level rise is likely to accelerate
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Courtesy UM Prof. Gordon Hamilton
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Implications for Maine of global instabilities caused by climate change (broadly defined):
• Potential demand for resources (water, food, space, etc.)• Economic disruptions of many kinds• National security instabilities• Cumulative demand for health-related services &
resources• Many others…
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Discussion?
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Records of atmospheric N2O and of Dansgaard–Oeschger events over a 16,000-year interval during the last ice age.
Schmittner & Galbraith (2008) Nature 456:373-376.
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