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 >
Hurricanes and Fires
Hi everyone!! I’m Julia, i live up north in Maine and the worst weather we ever really get is 6 feet of snow, so I am not an export in this topic but would like to give you my 10 cents. I have been watching (to an extent) the disaster caused by some hurricanes and fires (Mostly in the USA) for a few years now (Off and on). I also have family/friends who have experienced the disasters first hand. My second cousin lost the house they were staying in and all their belongings last summer in the California fires an extrem lose for her as some of the stuff she lost where the only things she had left from her mother who died many years ago. I also have friends with family living in florida who have been struck multipule times by those diasterius hurricanes. It is tragic in my mind, to think that everyday of our lives we pruduced CO2 that makes the atmosphere/earth heat up and then causes those fires and hurricanes. I would like to help make a difference here but I am not entirely sure were to begin.