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 ramifications of wildfires
Recently there have been several wildfires in California. This can be attributed to global warming. This not only effects wildlife, but also people, life’s. Hopefully this will make people change their actions.
I Agree the problem is fires in California are meant to happen, but not to this extent. Many plants rely on smaller fires to spread and to regrow or to get rid of the overpopulating evasive species. Some of the plants need the fire to grow better and to be able to live, but this has been prevented because of modern farming techniques and this has been very bad for the plants because more dead plants are lying about on the ground, which then makes the fires worse, affecting the atmosphere in a catastrophic way.