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 >
Cyclone Cycle
The increasingly dangerous hurricanes are frightening. The east coast of the US has some of its biggest cities and some of the worst tropical storms. The stronger storms are being caused by sea levels increasing and the ocean heating, both caused by global climate change. As the Earth heats up it causes ice caps to melt and the ocean to heat up, both cause the sea level to rise. Hurricanes and other tropical storms grow stronger on water and even a small difference in the water level could and is making hurricanes deadlier. How should we try to fix this? if not how should we try to cope with it.