Extreme Weatherby Bethelhem Ayalew Kebede | 04-09-2022 18:44 |
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It's summer, you and your friends have your whole summer vacation planned out, maybe you'll go to the beach and have ice cream or swim in the ocean life is awesome and you can't wait for all the fun you'll have. You wake up, rivulets of sweat rolling down your body, your shirt sticking to your body, your throat drier than a desert, you cannot fathom why it's so hot. It will get cooler by afternoon you think to yourself and get on with your day. The day continues and the heat gets worse it's stifling. You decide to take a walk to cool down. The first step on the tarmac of the asphalt you feel something sticking to the bottom of your feet shrugging you continue on your walk, but the stickiness does not abate, irritated you look down at your shoes wondering if it's gum. A gasp of horror leaves your throat. Chunks of your shoes have stuck to melting asphalt! That is an example of extreme weather. This scenario I have described might be fictional but the occurrences are real. These days all we can see all over the news are instances of extreme weather all across the globe. Heatwaves in the UK, golf ball-sized hailstones falling in Spain, deadly snow storms in Northern Europe and many more examples of the weather changes happening around the world right now. Many countries are experiencing unseasonal or extreme weather. People's lives and their livelihoods are being threatened. The root cause of extreme weather is climate change. And what or who is the cause of climate change? humans. Climate change has been talked about by so many people on so many different platforms and although steps have been taken to prevent and stop climate change it is still not enough. Governments need to implement more aggressive measures to slow down and eradicate climate change and in turn extreme weather. |
