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?
Extreme Weather >
Floods
Flood are becoming more often and extreme as climate change/global warming gets worse. When carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere from cars, factories, and more, not all the carbon dioxide can escape the atmosphere. With the carbon dioxide getting trapped in the atmosphere, creating a blanket of it, the temperatures rise and weather becomes warmer. This then leads to the ice caps melting to cause a rise in ocean levels. These high ocean levels then can lead to floods. If this continues, many animals, like polar bears, will go extinct because of their habitat melting. It will also in the future wash away coasts of land, like Florida.