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 have noticed that in my country that we have had an increase in rain and temperature. Summers have been have been getting hotter and the amount of rain that we had this year, especially the week of halloween was a lot and hate to see how climate change has done this. with climate change ice bergs have been melting, creating more water in our ocean, leading to more rain and eventually a rise in the ocean levels. A rise in ocean levels has already started happening in countries close to the water. Recently hurricane Melissa had affected Jamaica really significantly and I would hate to see it happen to my country and others around our world. Topics like this get us thinking what can we do to lower our carbon footprint and reflects what we can do to lower our carbon footprint.