Is Climate Change Supercharging Hurricanes?
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Provided by: Hot Mess|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This engaging video from Hot Mess discusses how climate change is supercharging hurricanes by examining Hurricane Harvey.
- The video clearly explains the relationship between rising temperatures and the increase in the severity of hurricanes.
Subjects: Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: Hot Mess
Region: North America, USA - South, United States
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The video uses engaging graphics and imagery to ensure students understand the content.
- The video is brief and can easily be fit into short class periods.
Prerequisites
- Students will need to have a basic understanding of climate change.
- There is an advertisement at the end of the video. The video content ends at 2 minutes and 43 seconds.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Civics classes can use this video to discuss how communities can prepare themselves for climate change. The videos How to Survive a Climate Disaster and Climate Change: Preparing for Power Loss can be used for students to explore these ideas further.
- Civics classes can use this video as a hook before exploring youth action taken after hurricanes. The videos Youth Climate Story: Hurricane Damage and Climate Strikes in Florida, Youth Climate Story: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (Keishla), and Youth Climate Story: Hurricane Sandy in Far Rockaway are helpful to further explore these ideas.
- Science teachers can use this resource before the lessons Extreme Weather 101 or Mapping Air Pressure - Visualizing Hurricane Irma to explore extreme weather exacerbated by climate change.
Attribution studies are a branch of climate science that look at individual weather events and attribute their strength to climate change. This PBS video explains how climate change made Hurricane Harvey worse. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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