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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Climate Change and Extreme Weather
Climate change and extreme weather events are related because, before all of this climate change, extreme weather events were much rarer than they are now. But because of this new pollution and climate change, they are much more frequent.
Hello Charles! You are right. I live in the mountains, in northen Italy, this summer it almost never rained, in Agust it started to rain a lot, a small village (CASE DI VISO, Ponte di Legno) was overwhelmed by the river that crossed it, destroying road, houses and the nature that surrounded it. The problem is that we are having no rain at all or flooding.