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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The thick blanket
The earth is warming as if there is a heavy blanket wrapped around us and it is all caused by us. We realses CO2 into the atmosphere and let greenhouse gases escape into the air every day. Little do we know what is happening behind all of this. The ice caps in the artic are melting which is creating sea levels to rise and soon whip out the coastal cities. There is already a problem in New Orleans as the government had to step in and raise the sidewalks and add pipes to work around the high sea level. As the ice caps are melting many animals are losing their habitat and their habitat is getting smaller and smaller.
I like how you pointed out that we are the ones that are causing most of the problems in our atmosphere. We don't only affect what's just around where we live but we affect things that aren't around us as well.