BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 22, 2022
How many more wakeup calls do we need? Communities along Maine’s coast certainly don’t need another report to remind them of the alarming realities of sea level rise. Those realities are already at our front door. But we can’t let the seemingly constant wakeup calls lull us to sleep, as if there’s nothing we can do to blunt these impacts down the road. As NASA explains, “Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming.” And this rise happens primarily because of added water from melting ice sheets, and because seawater expands as it warms. Human activity is causing the problem, and must be part of the solution.