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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Living in California and being directly affected by the wildfires, I can safely say that climate change has to be causing the fires. Climate change now has a tangible impact on my daily life. I used to think it was something that would only have an effect in the future, but now I know better. I hope that all of the natural disasters occurring lately will act as a wakeup call for the higher-ups, and the population in general, and I hope some action will actually be taken to save our planet.
I am so sorry to hear that you were affected by those wildfires and I agree with you when you say that climate change has to do something with this, because it truly does. But I do feel like that this is quite sad to see that people need such events to occur so that they can finally realize that climate change is no joke (or something created by some of us )and is happening right now.
So do authorities need to see those effects before making decisions? Wouldn’t it be too late then?