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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New weather and saftey
With fuels messing with the greenhouse gases and new weather coming to play how do we stop this or make sure it don´t get worse. How do we keep others and us safe from these extreme weathers.
I think that the most important change to make towards preventing dangerous weather events is to transition away from fossil fuels. Using different power sources such as solar energy and hydropower instead of fossil fuels, which got us into this mess in the first place, seems to be the only way out. We definitely aren’t going to see any improvement if we continue burning fossil fuels at the rate we are now! Of course, switching the world’s main energy sources isn’t something students like us can do in our own, but if people can put enough pressure on governments to move in a more sustainable direction, I think that they will have to listen eventually.