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
Extreme weather has been happening before climate change but climate change has been making it more frequent and more intense. Places that are usually warm are getting warmer which causes environmental problems such as droughts and forest fires which harms farmers and it pollutes the air. Places that are usually cold are getting colder which causes disasters such as blizzards.
I agree, even some places that are usually cold have been heating up exponentially.
I agree, I think that because of the sudden uprising of carbon emissions, we can see that the surface of the earth has been getting hotter and the environment is suffering terribly from it.