In the Northern Hemisphere in 2017 and 2018 brought several destructive hurricanes to the shores of North America, the Caribbean, and throughout the Pacific rim. Such extreme weather events are predicted to get more common and more severe with increasing climate change.
Several participating classes in the ISCFC were or are in the path of these storms and we hope for the best for them, their families and communities.
We would love to hear from students affected directly and indirectly by extreme weather events, and also any students who have been following the news this summer.
What are your thoughts about the connection between climate change and extreme weather events? Has this hurricane season increased your concern about climate change or not? Do you think that US citizens and residents (and others in the region) will take climate change more seriously now?
Extreme Weather >
Hurricane Season
In the southern United States, the hurricane season has been getting progressively worse year by year. They have been forced to endure more frequent, and more severe hurricanes every year. This is largely due to climate change. I believe that if we don't do anything to limit the effect of climate change, the whole area will be uninhabitable during the summer within a couple decades.
thoughts?
yes we should unchange the climate to make the hurricane less