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 winter
When I was little I remember me that in winter I always went out to make the snowman and to play with the snow. But now that some years have passed the snow there is not almost more. There has been a winter where it has snowed little. This is not beautiful, because the winter is characterized by the cold and the snow. Because of our actions everything this there is not more and sins.
I agree, I have noticed that the snow is slowly depleting and we need to take better care of the environment to help stop this.
I have learned about this multiple times in middle school. Due to the heat being trapped in the atmosphere from the amount of carbon dioxide, the ice caps melt. Therefore, there is no snow because of the amount of heat trapped.
I know: it's truly scary. It's sad that it has gotten to this point and still nothing major has really been done to remedy this. If we're already experiencing the after-effects of disrespecting our environment, what will the world look like a century from now if we don't do anything about it? Unfortunately as a population we don't seem capable of looking that far in the future, and we selfishly prioritize ourselves in the present moment as opposed to looking at the bigger picture. But hopefully we can change!
Along with seeing the dramatic amount of heat being trapped in the atmosphere and the lack of snow in wintry places, we also see weird phenomena in specific areas. For example, I live in the Oakland Bay Area and have never really been to any places that are supposed to snow. However, one weekend in January I went to go see my sister in college in Washington where it is usually cold but not cold enough. While I was up there, there was a large snow storm and roads became very icy and because Washington is not prone to that kind of weather, there were no snow plows or anything to help out with the roads. People usually see global warming as the Earth heating up, but along with that, we also need to acknowledge the change in weather all over even if it has to do with heat or not.
The weather has changed because of the pollution. Nowdays we do not have 4 seasons.