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 >
Climate Change and its parallels on current extreme weather events.
I feel that the crisis of climate change has lead to extreme weather events such as drought. Climate Change has a direct connection because if the world's climate is constantly changing, extreme weather events will directly follow in the same dramatic magnitude. The recent hurricanes have increased my concern because hurricanes instinctively are rooted to things such as climate change and environmental events. I feel that if there are events that directly effect the American population from a perspective of climate change, Americans will naturally take climate change more seriously. Simply because they become aware of the effects of climate change on extreme weather.