explaining Shading our Schools for a Cooler Tomorrow fall 2016 11 By Alex Levine, Fairchild Graduate Fellow Photos by Education Staff/FTBG According to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2015 was officially the hottest global year on record. With 15 of the past 16 hottest years occurring since 2001, the current millennium is exhibiting what might be the sharpest increase in global temperatures our planet has ever seen. Indeed, 2016 is now predicted to surpass 2015’s sweltering temperatures and become the new “hottest year ever,” the third consecutive year to hold this title. Florida is, in many ways, a bellwether for climate change. Many of the qualities our state is known for—hundreds of miles of coastal beaches, subtropical weather, continuing urban growth— magnify the climatic shifts that are occurring Many of South Florida’s elementary school students are becoming citizen scientists, thanks to a new collaboration between The Fairchild Challenge and The Nature Conservancy. What can elementary students contribute? Lots, the conservation organization believes, especially documentation of South Florida’s urban heat island.
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