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?
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How Renewable Energy helps the weather
We must take climate change more seriously by taking it into our own hands by using renewable energy like for example(solar,wind and hydropower). This will make it so that less fossil fuels will burn, and that this will lower the chances of wildfires. How this connects to extreme weather is that the heat makes water vapor which fuels storms. Not only does that water vapor create storms but it dries up our water sources by evaporating.