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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Extreme Weather
Global warming was first recognized in 1975 in a science newspaper. Since then, global warming and climate change has only gotten worse every year. Global warming gets worse when human activity affects greenhouse gases and makes greenhouses warmer, which then emits toxins into the atmosphere and causes the earth to warm up. Industries burning fossil fuels also releases CO2, which then makes the atmosphere humid. Because of the toxic chemicals being emitted into the air and events like deforestation happening, the earth is getting warmer, and it is estimated that Earth will hit its limit by 2030.