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 - and it effect on the USA
Extreme weather events that keep coming on the news in the USA have become quite normal even though it is not a typical site to see. even though the USA has some disadvantages in its geography because of the two oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains this creat much-crashing weather which creates horrible storms. This is not all that creat these extreme weather events it is also the addiction to Climate change that has created this. some of the effects have been Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Flash floods, Droughts, Wildfires, Blizzards, Ice storms, Nor’easters, Lake-effect snow, Heat waves, Severe thunderstorms, Hail, Lightning, Atmospheric rivers, Derechos, Dust storms, monsoons, Bomb cyclones, And the dreaded polar vortex. one example that is most prevalent is hurricanes there has been an increase of hurricanes since the 1980s this include measures of intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest. this has been happening because of the sea surface temperatures in the region that Atlantic hurricanes form and move through. this is happening due to some factors that influence these local sea surface temperatures, including natural variability, human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases, and particulate pollution. This is not the only factor it also has to do with the atmosphere that has changed too. this change in the atmosphere is the pollution that allows more sunlight to warm the ocean and human-caused heat-trapping gases which lead to sea surface temperatures rising.
https://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highli … me-weather
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/wh … tastrophes