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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Weather and climate change
Our planet is getting hotter every single year and it wasn't until this year as where i noticed it being almost 90 degrees in the coldest part of winter. Our carbon footprints are affecting the heat of the earth. Also creating more drastic weather such as hurricanes, tornados ect. These weather systems have serious affects every year in areas that people are prone to them and every year it is getting worse.
I agree, these past winter months have been getting hotter and hotter. Which is making more crazy weather like hurricanes. Most of the students in my class are suggesting that we should not drive less to reduce our carbon footprint. How do you suppose we can give the message to lower our carbon footprint?