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Valuing Maine’s Beaches:
Assets, Challenges, and Actions for Today and Tomorrow
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Concurrent Session II
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Adaptation to predictions of future climate change on Maine's coast and coastal beaches
- Moderator and presenter Robert Almeder, Board of Directors, SOS; Board of Directors, Kennebunkport Resident's Association; Co-Chairman of Growth Planning Committee, Kennebunkport; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science, Georgia State University
This presentation will describe briefly some of the non-controversial conditions of a good scientific theory and then examine briefly the rudiments of the global warming hypothesis articulated by the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control (2007) as it pertains to predictions affecting future climate change and future sea-level rise along the coast of Maine and the level of risk we should expect for suitable adaptation in the light of predictions by the IPCC on what we can expect in terms of global warming and seas-level rise. The presentation will conclude with brief reflections on desirable public policy issues affecting the coast of Maine and its beaches.
Last updated on April 28, 2009
