Training Videos
The following links to videos and PowerPoint presentations provide opportunities to learn more about climate-related challenges in the Gulf of Maine region and what is being done to address them.
Devin Causley, Federation of Canadian Municipalities Climate Change Program
Advanced Training Partners for Climate Protection (Parts I)
Advanced Training Partners for Climate Protection (Parts II)
Adam Fenech, UPEI Climate Research Lab
The Most Recent Scenarios of Future Climate forEastern North America
Jennifer Hackett, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
A Physiographic Coastline Classification of the Scotian Shelf Bioregion and Environs: The Nova Scotia Coastline and the New Brunswick Fundy Shore
Robert Hughes, Environment Canada
Atlantic Climate Change Adaptation Solutions in New Brunswick
Robert Hughes, Environment Canada
Atlantic Regional Adaptation Collaboration
Birgit Isernhagen, Environmental Business Services (Ottowa)
Data: The Foundation of GHG Inventories, It’s All in the Details
Daniel Lerch, Post Carbon Institute
Post-Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
David MacLeod, City of Toronto Environment Office
Adaptation to a Changing Climate
Maine Sea Grant, Building a Resilient Coast (a five-part video series)
Bernie McIntyre, Toronto & Region Conservation
Getting to Carbon Neutral: A Guide for Canadian Municipalities
Megan Meaney, ICLEI Canada
Measuring Progress toward Climate Protection
Northeast Climate Science Center has an extensive archive of webinars related to regional climate issues.
Northeast Regional Climate Center posts monthly webinars on recent weather trends.
Brenda Osborne, Edmonton Office of the Environment
Implementing and Evaluating Your Local Action Plan
Stuart Ramsey, Transport Planet
Energy, Climate and Transportation
Dany Robideaus, Manitoba EDC
Municipal Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories
Jane Tims, NB Environment
Building Sustainable Coastal Communities in New Brunswick (4 segments)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Samir Yammine, City of St. John
City of St. John Municipal Energy Efficiency Program
- Precipitation from extreme events in the GOM region has increased 74 percent since 1958 (NOAA).
- Extreme weather already poses economic and ecological challenges, and these events are expected to grow more frequent in coming decades, with precipitation increasing 5-9 percent (IPCC 2013).
Credit: Sherry Godlewski
- By 2050, climate scientists project a more rapid increase of 2.5 to 3.5°C (4.5 to 6.3° F) in regional air temperature (IPCC 2013).
- Temperatures in the Gulf of Maine have risen much more in recent decades than many other coastal waters around the world, and a 2012 “heat wave” in sea surface temperatures had damaging economic impacts.
Projected Temperature Changes in the Gulf of Maine Region by the 2050s (°C.), reflecting the most recent IPCC models (Credit: Adam Fenech, UPEI Climate Lab)
What’s Climate Change and What’s Just the Weather?
This one-minute animation by Ole Christoffer Haga, produced by Teddy TV for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, clearly and humorously illustrates the difference between long-term climate trends and variable weather patterns.