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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Global warming and climate change
Global warming is the slow increase of Earth's temperature. One thing that contributes to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels because fossil fuels release CO2 into the atmosphere. Global warming is also tied to climate change, or the change in both global and regional climate patterns. According to an article by "Science Alert," ever since industrialization when more fossil fuels were burned, climate change and global warming have also been affected. One thing that we can do to prevent further climate change and global warming is burn less fossil fuels.
I absolutely agree with the basis of your topic. Another solution to global warming and extreme weather would be to start using our agriculture to become a more effective carbon sink. Plants such as grass are made up mostly of carbon, with this statistic in mind if more of our agriculture was formed around a sustainable world we could start preventing global warming and could create a better environment.
Another solution to Global Warming and climate change would be little things like taking shorter showers and buying used clothes and re using day to day items like water bottles. Almost 90 percent of the clothes given to good will are send to incinerators or land fill. These things increase our CO2 concentration and endangers us and our planet.
We could also decrease CO2 by using public transport instead of our private cars as much as possible. For each gallon of gas used, 8.7 kg of carbon dioxide is emitted. The more we drive, the more harmful carbon dioxide our car emits into the air.