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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Weather Has Changed
Weather has extremely changed in the past 20 years. The worlds temperature has increased by six-tenths. Sea levels have risen 3 inches, and extreme weather has increased by thirty percent. In Greenland and Antarctica, ice sheets have lost 4.9 trillion tons. Since 1992, there have been more than 6,600 major climate, weather, and water disasters worldwide. These disasters have cause about 1.6 trillion dollars in damage, and killed over 600,000 people. In the US climate extremes (hot, cold, wet, dry) have jumped by thirty percent. The oceans have also increased their acidic levels by half a percent. The ice caps have also lost 790,000 square miles since 1992. The weather is being extremely effected with the climate change and heating of the world.