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 makes me realize that extreme weather conditions are impacting people all around the world, even those who don’t contribute to climate change at all.
I agree with that. I fell bad for the people who are effected by climate change when there aren’t even the main cause of it and they’re only effected by it because of where they live. It’s sad to think of what the earth will be like in 20 years.
I agree, with the major losses in the Bahamas, not that we needed it to see how destructive natural disasters are but it really was eye opening. It flattened thousands of homes and killed countless people who now have nowhere to go.
I definitely agree. It not only shows how much of an impact we have on people in different countries, but the power we have to do something as major as destroying people’s homes and cities, whether trying to or not. It also shows how even though we are aware of the destruction we are causing and how much it effects people, we are not doing very much in our own personal life to make changes to try to fix that and reduce our carbon emissions.
Yeah, I agree as well, with what you're all saying, because all these different causes, pollution, poor care for the environment, and most importantly global warming are causing mass destruction by extreme weather to our world. According to CNN, it stated that storms and flash floods are going to be able to cause destruction to two regions across the U.S., which is also a major cause of safety in the world, taking into account how large a region can be. This is affecting the economy as well, as government agencies and people around the world are using millions of dollars, to fix problems the world is having trouble to prevent right now.
The video is showing just a simple major deep freeze in the South which seems, strange as the South is expected to be warm, which reveals how much of an effect global warming is having on the world. People, littering blocking storm drains, is actually a big deal, as it prevents water from reaching oceans, lakes, and rivers, allowing overflows of water , which could potentially create a flood somewhere. Many areas in the world have already been majorly affected by extreme weather conditions, whether that is a flood, tornado, earthquake from cold or heat, global warming which is still continuing to grow. These are all destroying our world today, which is a large reason why our world, could potentially fall apart in the near future.