Regional Links

Massachusetts

• Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs/Climate Change
• Massachusetts Health and Human Services/Climate Change
• Massachusetts StormSmart Coasts
• StormSmart Coasts: Massachusetts
• Northeast Coastal Climate Change Adaptation
• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

New Hampshire

• New Hampshire State Climate Office
• New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services: Climate Change Program
• StormSmart Coasts: New Hampshire
• New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup
• Clean Air-Cool Planet: Resilient Communities
• Carbon Coalition Local Energy Committee
• Northeast Coastal Climate Change Adaptation

Maine

• University of Maine: Maine Climate News
• Climate Change Institute Publications
• Northeast Coastal Climate Change Adaptation

New Brunswick

• Climate Change Secretariat New Brunswick: Adaptation Branch
• Climate Change Secretariat New Brunswick: Educ. & Engagement Branch
• Climate Change Secretariat New Brunswick: Mitigation
• New Brunswick Climate Change Public Education and Outreach Hub
• New Brunswick Environment and Local Government: Climate Change

Nova Scotia

• Clean Nova Scotia
• Climate Change Nova Scotia Adaptation Clearinghouse
• Service Nova Scotia & Municipal Relations
• SNSMR municipality finder map
• Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities
• Canada – Nova Scotia Infrastructure Secretariat
• Municipal Climate Change Action Plans–Data Sources
• Ecology Action Centre

United States

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• NOAA Coastal Services Center Northeast
• NOAA’s Sea-level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer
• Environmental Protection Agency: Climate Change
• New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission
• Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network
• Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
• The Nature Conservancy
• U.S. Global Change Research Program

Canada

• Federation of Canadian Municipalities Partners for Climate Protection
• Regional Adaptation Collaborative
• Environment Canada Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network
• Natural Resources Canada Climate Change
• Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network–Canada
• ICLEI-Canada: Local Governments for Sustainability

• 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.