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 do we know that climate change is why we have more extreme weather? Could there be other reasons too? Is climate change contributing to this problem and if so, how much?
Hello, I think the climate change affects a lot the weather, for example, I live in Italy, in mountain place and it's always sunny and temperatures are quite high, that's unusual for us, it snows less and less. In the past it snowed more, but now the rainfalls are less frequent and, when they happen, they always cause damages, here you can find what happened near where I live.