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
It is very obvious that there has been an increase in natural disaster, the most common we have been seeing just in the past two months being hurricanes. The hurricanes hitting the south-eastern part of the U.S. have caused devastation for millions of families in mainly Texas and Florida. Is it a coincidence that these hurricanes happened in a time period so close together? Is it a sign that global warming is finally giving it's effect on the people who caused it to worsen? Well here's what I think.
Most people have come to the realization that global warming is in fact happening and we need to do something about it before things get super bad. Over the past century the average temperature of the planet has gone up significantly, and shows a pattern of even more increase in the future. The thing is what are we, the people, going to do before our planet reaches it's breaking point? Well CO2 levels in the air have risen, most likely due to human transportation and activity. In fact 35 billion tons of gas goes into the air just from factories. We are destroying our own hom e and some don't even realize it.
The greenhouse gases in the air are going all the way to the point of earths' atmosphere and bouncing back to us. Causing a reaction, that reaction, heat. Humans need to come up with better alternatives to not emit carbon dioxide into the air because it affecting everything on the planet. Oceans are acidifying, glaciers are melting, and wildfires are becoming more frequent. So, the question is what will you do?