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Extreme Weather

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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Climate Change: Tropical Storm Formation

kierenm

First and foremost, we must take into account the ways these destructive storms form. Hurricanes start from the evaporation of water, which rises as warm, moist vapor. When this air rises, other air will swirl around from the difference in pressure. Fed by the constant evaporating water and ocean heat, this air condenses into clouds and continues to spin. The process continues until the storm is very large and moving at high speeds. Since these hurricanes need heated conditions and evaporated water, a rising climate change would definitely make this process faster and more common. As the climate rises, the oceans will get warmer and more water will begin to evaporate, which will eventually cause these tropical storms. With this in mind, we must take the climate and storms very seriously, or it could have some very negative effects like the past two we have just endured.

daryn

Great research. To add to your post, it's often a misconception that the changes in our atmosphere causes the hurricanes, but most scientists agree that the rising sea levels, warmer oceans, and overall climate changes has, according to research by Climate Central,  not caused the hurricanes to form, but "caused the hurricanes to become more catastrophic than they would have bee in the past decades." Hurricanes are essentially able to intensify over warmer waters and because global warming has caused oceans to warm on average and has also risen sea levels, hurricanes have become more disastrous in modern history. This is a serious issue as we have all seen the disastrous and destructive effects of Hurricane Harvey and Irma. This is why we all need to realize that climate change will only get worse if we don't take action now. Homes are being destroyed and people are dying. If we didn't take it seriously before, we definitely must now! Climate change is extremely i mportant and us as humans and inhabitants of Earth must start taking care of our planet now before it's too late.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/climat … index.html

ashleyflor

I completely agree with both points. It is so important that all the inhabitants of this earth, especially the ones in power, see what is right in front of them. The rising sea levels are causing so many problems, but not only with hurricanes. There is flash flooding that occurs in places at or below sea level, regularly flooding houses and making people homeless. Government leaders need to see the facts and read the data and do something about this problem that is now regularly affecting millions of people. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have only reestablished the need to combat the major flooding that has put so many innocent people in this country at such a disadvantage.

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