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
Extreme weather is a huge problem that will keep getting worse if we don't do anything about it. This is due to climate change caused by human activity. The carbon from our transportation, farming and deforestation is getting trapped in our atmosphere and heats up the Earth. This is causing many horrible problems to arise. The increase of temperature is causing harsher droughts, heat waves, heavy downpours, floods and hurricanes... We need to have something done about this. Not just sit and watch as our planet gets into worse and worse conditions.
I agree. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55416013 This article talks covers many of the extreme weather events in the past year. There were fires in Australia and California, to extreme flooding in China and South Sudan, and high heat waves and storms all around the globe. Right now the US is watching its southern states get hit hard by extreme winter storms. These events are all brought on by human activity and we really need to focus on healing our planet before our impacts become irreversible.
Extreme weather is an event when the weather is significantly different from the average weather. I absolutely agree that extreme weather is a huge problem and will keep on getting worse affecting animals, plants, humans, cities, and countries. Scientists studying this topic; extreme weather, have determined that there is a strong connection with global warming affecting the weather. Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed from fossil fuel burning. The more burning of fossil fuels, the more it causes heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. The average temperature of Earth is rising close to twice the rate it was 50 years ago. Examples of some extreme weather caused by global warming are as follows: Tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, dust storms, floods, hailstorms, and ice storms These events have been getting worse affecting cities and countries.An article shows what states in the United States have the most severe extreme storms and shows that these extreme weather events caused by global warming are affecting more things than most people think. An example of a state with extreme weather is Bismarck, North Dakota. This city occupies about an estimated 75,000 people with monstrous hurricanes and blizzards. In 1981, a huge hurricane hit and destroyed over 2,000 homes and the following week came a huge blizzard. Keep in mind that this was in 1980. The weather is getting worse and there are definitely worse extreme weather events now. There are many more places in the world facing events like this and we need to find a way to stop these events.