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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Climate Change
The crisis of climate change has become a concerning topic around the world. The temperatures from the greenhouse gases are trapping heat in our planet, therefore, causing global warming. From research, the causes are divided into two categories which include "natural" and "human influences" of global warming. Natural causes of global warming include the rotation of the sun that changes the intensity of sunlight, moving closer to the earth and the greenhouse gases. On the other hand, human influences on global warming include our everyday actions. The effects lead to heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall with floods, ocean acidification, and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. According to the United Nations organization, it is said that we have 12 years to limit climate change. The biggest threat to humans is climate change, while the biggest threats to humans are humans. We continue to cause climate change which one day will cause our own death if we don’t stop.