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 Change in Weather
This year I have noticed climate change and strange weather patterns more often than I expected to. In fact on April 17th it snowed in Oakland. The bay area hadn't experienced snowfall since around forty years before. I also remember a time this year when I woke up and it was around eighty degrees Fahrenheit, but when I went to sleep it was storming outside. Rather than brushing this sort of weather off, I think it is important to acknowledge that climate change is a real thing. It effects humans, and humans contribute to it everyday.