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?
Extreme Weather >
how climate change can affect our enviorment
climate change can be caused by our carbon footprints and I think it is important to try and lower them. Another factor of climate change is the increase of the human population because as the population of humans increase, the earth gets more populated and the humans increase their carbon footprints. The greenhouse gasses from the carbon footprints warm up the earth which can cause climate change and be harmful to our enviorment.
I very much agree with this statement. Having an exponentially growing population is doing huge amounts of harm to our environment. Organisms other than humans are incredibly important to our ecosystems, and if we don't lower our carbon footprint as a whole, animals and plants are at risk. The more humans on earth, ex: the more gas we need to fill our cars. causing more oil to have to be found in the forest or ocean which takes away many homes and resources for species that are essential to us. The amount at which we hurt our environment, we will be hurt back. the more humans, the more harm done.
Climate change is almost entirely because of our carbon footprints. Before human industrialization, the earths carbon cycle was balanced. There was about an equal amount of Carbon dioxide going in to the atmosphere as the Carbon coming out. Humans carbon footprints are the cause of ice melting in the arctic, and the extinction of animals. I think that we have to do anything we can to lower our carbon footprints. Such as eating less meat, buying more second-hand clothing, avoiding excess packaging, and turning the lights off when we leave a room.