Too hot | My Climate Story

Jennifer’s Story

Feb 2, 2023 | Anxious, Excited, Grief, Helpless, How humans are affected, Nostalgic, Sad, Scared, Too hot, Too much water, Wacky weather, Worried

I am sensing climate change through the increase in extreme weather.

Ninon’s Story

Feb 2, 2023 | Anxious, Frustrated, Helpless, Nostalgic, Too hot, Worried

In my audio recording, I speak about my experience growing up competitively skiing.

Wren’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Not enough water, Too hot, Wacky weather

My family huddled up in one room with air conditioning and even with it, it was still 80 degrees in there.

Krypton’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Too hot, Too much water

They make me feel sad and worried for my mama’s home, and my family’s home, and if future generations are going to have the same Earth we want them to have.

Mrinalini’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | How humans are affected, Too hot

I feel that the rapid urbanization in a country like India has led to many such deforestation activities.

Aman’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | Air quality, Angry, Anxious, Frustrated, Helpless, Hopeful, How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Not enough water, Overwhelmed, Temperature, Too hot, Water

There was no more forest but spans of dried up trees. Ailing, sad, brown – the place I had once loved and known to be full of birdsong and butterflies now ceased to exist. The birds had all left – Delhi was simply too hot for them.

Jonathan’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | Anxious, How humans are affected, Temperature, Too cold, Too hot, Too much water, Wacky weather, Water, Worried

However, last year when I returned home for Winter Break from Penn and walked outside of Union Station, the first thing I noticed was how warm it was outside. It felt like spring and I was very concerned right away because I thought about how hot it was the past summer.

Timothy’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | Nostalgic, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

When I was the same age as Daniel, I remember blizzards that would cancel school for a week, snow so high that my dad and I would make igloos out of them, snow so heavy I could sink waist deep. Core memories that don’t just pale in comparison, they hurt.

Ash’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | Air quality, Anxious, Overwhelmed, Temperature, Too hot, Wildfires, Worried

In class, we spent time gazing out the wide-paned windows to catch deer and bobcats stalk the barren mountains outside instead of study the math worksheets and history books in front of us.

Khue’s Story

Feb 1, 2023 | Air quality, Frustrated, Helpless, How humans are affected, Overwhelmed, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Wildfires, Worried

For what seemed like forever, the skies became orange and hazy and it became normal to see smoke somewhere. The smell of burning wood and building materials permeated the air.

Sophia’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Air quality, Anxious, Confused, Frustrated, How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Not enough water, Overwhelmed, Scared, Temperature, Too hot, Water, Wildfires, Worried

My nostrils burned a little more with each inhale as I realized that there must be a wildfire somewhere close by.

Allyonna’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Confused, Frustrated, Overwhelmed, Temperature, Too cold, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

I don’t know if I should dress warmly or wear something that won’t make me sweat all day.

Gloria’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Angry, Confused, Frustrated, Helpless, How humans are affected, Temperature, Too hot

The game was no longer trying to play your best so you wouldn’t get subbed out, but to conserve your energy under the hot sun so that you wouldn’t pass out from the heat.

Lee’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | How humans are affected, Nostalgic, Overwhelmed, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Worried

With the heat rising, the sun would beat down against the pavement and fry us.

August’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Anxious, Frustrated, Grief, Helpless, How humans are affected, Motivated, Not enough water, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Water

The forest was no longer as loud; I used to be able to hear more birds chirping.

Kimora’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Anxious, Helpless, Scared, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

Just knowing that something like this is possible is horrifying.

Jayel’s Story

Jan 31, 2023 | Frustrated, Helpless, How humans are affected, Sad, Temperature, Too hot

Those families that can barely afford bad quality food but still want to keep their families healthy have to suffer and choose what they should prioritize more: health or supporting their family financially.

Rosa’s Story

Jan 30, 2023 | Confused, Nostalgic, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

In the early month of June, however, England was facing record-high heat.

Owen’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Confused, Frustrated, Ice and Snow, Scared, Temperature, Too hot, Too Little Snow, Wacky weather, Worried

As Christmas came closer and closer, I waited for the first bit of snow to arrive. I waited and waited, but not one flake of snow fell down from the sky that December.

Tomas’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Grief, Helpless, How nonhumans are affected, Temperature, Too cold, Too hot, Wacky weather

Suddenly a thought comes unbidden.
This will be gone soon too.

Every year it feels like I’m seeing the trees change later, and when spring comes around and I see either dead trees or trees that have been green for a while I just think about how I might be one of the last generations to experience this.

Brycinea’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Frustrated, How humans are affected, Nostalgic, Sad, Temperature, Too hot

Instead of waiting for the snow, I’ve come to dread the inch of snow that becomes thin ice, not even enough for a snow day.

Vivina’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Hopeful, Ice and Snow, Nostalgic, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Too Little Snow, Worried

I love when the snow actually sticks to the ground and piles up to six inches–I would make bunny rabbits with footprints, or draw things in the snow that was piled on ledges. Sadly, I don’t remember doing any of those things in the last two or three years–not because I don’t have the time to do so, but because there was never that much snow to begin with.

Sarah’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Anxious, Helpless, How humans are affected, Nostalgic, Overwhelmed, Sad, Scared, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

As the years ticked by, snow has made less and less frequent appearances. Maybe this is just a side effect of childhood nostalgia—the feeling that every weather event, holiday, and outing was just a bit more dramatic and exciting when I was younger—but part of me tells me it isn’t.

Jason’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Frustrated, Helpless, Nostalgic, Temperature, Too hot

I’ve read so much about how climate change affects places like the Arctic and Alaska, but it was different seeing the glaciers in person.

Ghent’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Temperature, Too hot, Worried

The young campers between ages six and eight complained about not feeling well and nearly fainted as some had in the previous summers due to these heat waves.

Daren’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Helpless, Temperature, Too hot, Worried

During the summer of 2022, the temperature was so high, there were a lot of days where the temperature had reached over 100℉.

Kai’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Frustrated, How humans are affected, Sad, Temperature, Too hot, Too much water, Water

Most of the beaches on the entire south stretch of the island were full of foul-smelling and unsightly sargassum seaweed.

Anne’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Angry, Anxious, Frustrated, Grief, Helpless, Nostalgic, Overwhelmed, Sad, Too hot, Wacky weather

It’s place in me will always exist and I hope that I will have places I can go to with it for years to come.

Daniella’s Story

Jan 29, 2023 | Air quality, Angry, Anxious, Confused, Frustrated, Grief, Helpless, How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Overwhelmed, Sad, Scared, Temperature, Too cold, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

Mainly, the sounds of animals have diminished

Vivian’s Story

Jan 27, 2023 | Not enough water, Temperature, Too hot, Water, Wildfires

I have seen first hand how fast climate change has begun to exponentially make itself known.

Emma’s Story

Jun 17, 2022 | Anxious, Helpless, How humans are affected, Scared, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

Holding infant-me, my parents huddled on the kitchen floor in order to avoid the windows. Because of the raging hurricanes in the summer of 2004…

Rachel’s Story

Jun 10, 2022 | Grief, Helpless, Scared, Temperature, Too cold, Too hot, Wacky weather, Worried

Ohio was home for the first eighteen years of my life. Since leaving it, however, it has become refuge.

Nic’s Story

Apr 22, 2022 | Hopeful, How humans are affected, Temperature, Too hot, Wacky weather

I was born in France but barely ever lived there. However every winter I go back there to celebrate Christmas…

Alejandro’s Story

Apr 7, 2022 | Air quality, How humans are affected, How nonhumans are affected, Not enough water, Temperature, Too hot, Too much water, Wacky weather, Water

Bogotá used to be much colder, and with constant rain (volume and frequency)…

Anna’s Story

Mar 29, 2022 | Energized, How humans are affected, Temperature, Too hot, Too much water, Water

In 100 years, my hometown will have the same climate at Richmond, VA!

Olesia’s Story

Mar 25, 2022 | Temperature, Too cold, Too hot

Title Olesia’s Climate Story Name Olesia Rivera Place Flourtown, PA 19031 How are you sensing climate change? how im seeing climate change is 2.5-5.5 inches How do these changes make you feel? it threw my sleeping pattern off. it was hard to adjust Collection...

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