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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More Heat Waves
I remember reading a NY Times article, which says, "Extreme heat is the hallmark of global warming." Over the past decades, researchers gain more evidence supporting the correlation between climate change and an increase number of heat waves. Warm air can hold more water vapor and lead to heavy downpours. "Across the United States, heavy precipitation events have increased in intensity and frequency since the beginning of the 20th century," as the article states. I am very concerned about this not only because it leads to severe property lose and threat to human lives, but also that the increasing frequencies is alarming people that something unusual is happening here. The atmosphere is connected and doomed over the globe. Heavy downpour in the atmosphere means extreme droughts on the other part of the world. This unbalance of water distribution is very likely the result of climate change.