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
In February of this year, Texas experienced and endured severely cold conditions. This weather, named a "polar vortex" or a cold snap, almost took 200 people's lives in a span of 2 weeks. Although it seemed to shock a lot of the media and people have tried to use this as an argument towards the climate changing, Texas has a history of recorded cold snaps all the way back to 1895. So, my question is: Are the cold snaps an effect of climate change or is it an unusual occurrence of weather in Texas?