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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greenhouse gasses
As the weather starts to make awkward changes, we begin to ask why there are such weird weather patterns currently. The answer is sad but true, greenhouses gases in the atmosphere can cause global temperature change, as a result, it is known as global warming. Greenhouse gasses are caused by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. All this carbon in the atmosphere is can be caused by all these companies throughout America. When we increase carbon dioxide emissions, we increase the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere which then causes extreme weather. As citizens, we can do our part to keep global warming from worsening, by limiting our contribution to carbon dioxide emissions which include gas, meat, and dairy industry.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news … l-warming/
I agree the green hous gases in the atmospere have made the global temperature rise which has made the weather patterns unpredictable and even more deadly. On an article written and posted on the NASA website they state "The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit during the last century." As the temperatures continue to rise the weather patterns with continue to get worse.