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Front and back cover: Greenland ice melt – John McConnico/AP Photo; Bubble Rock – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Fei Chai – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO;

Earth wobble – Jonathan Ferland, Eric Zelz/BDN GRAPHICS, source: National Geographic Society; Paul Mayewski – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Harold Borns –

John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Earth from space – NASA PHOTO; Ice cores – Climate Change Institute PHOTO; The sun – NASA PHOTO.

Page 2: Ice cores – Climate Change Institute PHOTO; Greg Zielinski – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Bubble Rock – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Harold Borns – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Inupiat hunter – Laurent Dick/AP Photo.

Page 3: The Ice Age in Maine – Jonathan Ferland, Eric Zelz/BDN GRAPHIC, source: Climate Change Institute, Maine Geological Survey – “Glaciers & Granite,” by David L. Kendall.

Page 4: Bangor, Storm of 1962 – BDN FILE PHOTO; Kirk Maasch – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Robert Kates – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO;

Marion Staples – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Birdwatchers – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO.

Page 5: Storm of 1962 – BDN FILE PHOTOS; “The Census at Bethlehem” by Brueghel, Pieter the Elder (c. 1515-69), Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.

Page 6-7: The fate of solar radiation/Layers of the atmosphere, sources: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment,” “DK Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science,” “Reporting on Climate Change,” Climate Change Institute, Texas A&M University’s Web site oceanworld.tamu.edu, “The Audubon Field Guide to North American Weather;” Earth’s orbital mechanics, sources: National Geographic Society, “Reporting on Climate Change,” “The Ice Chronicles” – Mayewski and White, oceanworld.tamu.edu; Glacial and Interglacial periods, sources: “Nature,” 399, Vol. 399 (6735), June 3, 1999, “Evolution of the Earth,” McGraw Hill, Inc., Reporting on Climate Change; Earth’s circulatory system, sources: “DK Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science,” “Reporting on Climate Change,” Climate Change Institute, “The Audubon Field Guide to North American Weather;” The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, sources: “The Ice Chronicles,” Mayewski and White, “Reporting on Climate Change,” oceanworld.tamu.edu, “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment;” Earth’s greenhouse effect, sources: “Reporting on Climate Change,” Environment magazine, December 2004, “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment,” National Geographic Society, Climate Change Institute; Predictions for the next century, source: “Reporting on Climate Change,” Science News Online; Atmospheric carbon dioxide, source: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment” – Jonathan Ferland, Eric Zelz/BDN GRAPHICS.

Page 8: Paul Mayewski – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; A changing coastline, sources: MODIS images courtesy of NASA’s Terra satellite, supplied by Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder; Change of Greenland Ice Sheet, source: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment; GISP2 project, sources: Climate Change Institute, “The Ice Chronicles,” Mayewski and White.

Page 9: Arctic climate trends, increasing global concentrations of carbon dioxide, source: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment;” The Arctic melt, source: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment;” Surface reflectivity, source: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment;” Florida inundation, source: “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment” – Jonathan Ferland, Eric Zelz/BDN GRAPHICS; Global positioning system receivers – Climate Change Institute PHOTO.

Page 10: Fei Chai – John Clarke Russ/BDN PHOTO; Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, sources: “The Ice Chronicles,” Mayewski and White, “Reporting on Climate Change,” oceanworld.tamu.edu, “Arctic Climate Impact Assessment” – Jonathan Ferland, Eric Zelz/BDN GRAPHICS; John Hunt map – Maine Historical Society; Valley Forge, reproduction of a 1907 painting, St. Paul, Brown and Bigelow, copyright 1907, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress; Bangor, Storm of 1962 – BDN FILE PHOTO.

Page 11: Hurricane Katrina – Eric Gay/AP PHOTO.

Those materials in “Our Changing World” reproduced or adapted from “Reporting on Climate Change: Understanding the Science, Third Edition,” done so with permission from the Environmental Law Institute.

Materials in “Our Changing World” reproduced or adapted from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment’s 2004 “Impacts of a Warming Arctic” with permission of Paul Grabhorn, Grabhorn Studio, Santa Fe, N.M.

Materials in “Our Changing World” reproduced or adapted from “The American Heritage Science Dictionary” with permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, copyright 2005.

Materials in “Our Changing World” reproduced or adapted from “Nature,” 399, Vol. 399 (6735), June 3, 1999, pp. 429-436 (“Climate and Atmospheric History of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica”) with permission of Jean Robert Petit.