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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Fires in California
In California, wildfires have been consistently been getting worse and worse. For example, according to the state department of forestry and fire prevention over the past 5 years, an average of 3263 acres of land have been burnt by fires but in the past year, it has doubled to 6507 acres. This is also no coincidence because heating up and fires are easily started in hotter and drier climates. This is why we need to curb our carbon emissions as a state now so that more of our beautiful state doesn't burn.
https://www.fire.ca.gov/stats-events/