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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We’re destroying our planet
Were damaging our planet and it’s now really starting to show. Weather extremes such as tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. are becoming increasingly stronger than the last. The amount of pressure the human race has been placing on the Earth with pollution of different types has lead to natural disasters swinging out of control.
Lots of natural disasters are an extreme issue. Especially when it comes to wild fires in western states. Earthquakes also are a major issue as well.
It's so important for people to understand that even though these natural disasters cannot be stopped, we are only increasing the number and intensity of these disasters through the pollution and greenhouse gases we produce, which affect the climate. Where I live, there's a lot of wildfires because of the overall temperature increase, which makes things hotter and drier, thus creating more chance for wildfires which are extremely devastating for a lot of people!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/envi … -wildfire/
All of this is so true, there have been so many natural disasters that have happened over the few years that have greatly affected the whole world. I have been doing research on the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, and they just continue to get worse. To prevent this, humans need to be far more careful about our waste consumption, pollution and the spread of greenhouse gasses.
This is so true. I can't believe how people still don't think climate change is real when the evidence is right there. For example, Trump doesn't think climate change is happening when he has the mass amount of recent California wildfires in his own country. People need to start looking at the facts and evidence and start taking action