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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Heat Waves
Heat waves are occurring more frequently, going from an average of two per year in the 1960s to six in 2010-2020, this is a result of climate change. The greenhouse gasses trapped in Earth's atmosphere are causing climate change, this is because the more greenhouse gasses there are, the more heat from the sun is trapped. Usually, the sun would warm up the earth during the day and the heat would leave in the night, but due to the high amount of greenhouse gasses, the heat can't leave during the night and gradually the temperature of the earth began to rise. Source: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/ … heat-waves