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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Extreme Weather
According to nca2014.globalchange.gov in the last 50 years our planets climate has risen and this results in many occurrences such as downpours and hurricanes. Heavy downpours in the US has increased by a large amount within the last 30 years. The places where the downpours have increased most are Northeast, Midwest, and Upper Great Plains. One main reason for why hurricanes have become more frequent and more destructive is because of the warmer seas. Although there are other contributors to the more frequent hurricanes warming seas is part of the problem.