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 and climate change
In 2003 we had our first evidence of the relationship between climate change and Extreme weather events. In 2003 there was a deadly heat wave that struck the continent of Europe and killed nearly 70,000 lives. Since then a new field of science was launched "attribution science". Currently, our technology has gotten advanced enough to be able to predict these extreme weather events before they happen. How do we start preparing for future events that will have a major effect on peoples lives?