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
Over the summer of 2017 there have been very extreme weather cases in Florida and Texas, this is caused by climate change. According to "Business Ideas", climate increases ocean temperatures, raises sea levels, and creates more atmospheric water vapor — which makes heavy precipitation events more likely.
Harvey and other hurricanes are exacerbated by the factors. That's why meteorologists were so concerned about this storm as it approached the coast. What’s causing the changes is an increase in heat energy trapped in the atmosphere, due to greenhouse gases. According to "Vox", severe downpours in the Houston area have become 167 percent more frequent in the past decade, which is commensurate with one of the best-understood and most confident predictions of climate science: Climate change is going to bring lots more heavy rains.
Because climate change is affecting people's lives, people will start reducing burning fossil fuels, and we can use the 3R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Doing these things will for sure help reduce climate change.