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
We need to watch how much carbon we’re release in our earth’s atmosphere. Or else we’re going to keep having hurricanes, extreme winters and warm waters. These all factor into the decline in our Earth inhabitability.
This is important because the change in climate can also affect the ecosystem, which can affect the food chain.
Recently in California there has been huge wildfires all over the state. All these fires we manmade and now they are unable to control them. With all these fires burning it's not only destroying the state but the carbon footprint as well. The fire itself not only produces a hint of carbon but the fire extinguishers that they are using to put out the fires are full of carbon to contain the fire. This is just one of the many examples of humans destroying the carbon footprint. If we don't be careful we are going to create some dangerous issues with our environment.