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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I think climate change is a big factor in our weather. It happens when we have a lot of carbon dioxide and waste we punch a hole in the O zone layer.
While Carbon dioxide is the main reason to climate change we also have to think about any fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels can destroy a lot of mother nature itself. Now To the ozone layer. Studies shown that over the years the Ozone Layer has been healing every year and now studies say the Ozone layer is on track to heal in our lifetime. So carbon emissions have been getting lowered and if we keep on doing this climate change can continuously become a smaller problem.
Heres a link:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-healing … -cfcs-0305
Not only will climate change will have big effects in our weather it will also have big effects on humans as a whole. Mainly since most of the worlds population lives in cities close to the water having extreme weather such as a very high tide or a tsunami could greatly impact the lively hood of many of these people. Also having extreme droughts for people further inland who grow food could greatly impact how much food and the quality of food they produce effecting everyone who relies on them for food. Since the Ozone layer is said to be healing these changes in weather should hopefully be less and less common as the years go on.