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
climate change can affect many places.
It seems like each year we are getting more information on climate change and more situations to prove that climate change is real. So far California's wild fires, Florida's hurricanes, Texas' snow days, and Antarctica's ice caps melting are only the tip of the iceberg (no pun intended) of what's happened and what's to come if we don't minimize our carbon footprint.
I agree and believe that these serve as a warning to get our stuff together.