BBC World Class is working with Atlantic Rising to hear from young people living around the Atlantic Coast.

Atlantic Rising is a project that connects schools around the Atlantic rim, in areas that would be threatened by rising sea levels according to some projections of the impact of climate change.

BBC World Class will be following the Atlantic Rising journey from the Scottish Isles to West Africa, across to  Guyana in South America, through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico and the east coast of the US and Canada.  We will be hearing from schools Atlantic Rising visits along their route. 

We start off by hearing from students at Tiree High School, on the Isle of Tiree in the Scottish Isles.

Tiree is an island so it’s surrounded by sea. It’s very flat and it’s mostly taken up by fields where the crofters or the farmers raise their cattle and sheep.

Some of the houses are very close to the shore and sometimes when there’s bad weather they get wet. On the beaches there are lots of strange things washed up because of the currents.

We also have lots of different animals in the sea around about Tiree. We have basking sharks and sometimes we get lots of jelly fish. We also have dolphins. If you go out and about you can see them.

I think global warming will affect us in Tiree because the icebergs are melting and sea levels are rising and soon we may go under water.

I also think it will affect us because, if we start getting really warm weather, some of the animals might get a bit hot and bothered.

I think that it’s everyone’s job to look after the sea. Responsibility can’t be heaped onto one person or a group of people. Everyone should play a part in it. It’s our fault in a way because we’re the ones who are polluting the sea.

The extreme weather I have experienced was the ends of waves splashing onto my window. The sea came right up to the fence. It was that bad.

I think global warming will affect Tiree because it’s that flat that, if the sea levels are rising, Tiree is just going to sink. That’s why it’s called the land below the waves.

The sea is very calm in summer but in the winter it’s very rough and there are lots of currents. If we go swimming we have to be very careful that we don’t get pulled out by the currents.

Sometimes there’s lots of seaweed and we don’t really like it because, if it’s a nice day, we want to go swimming.

In the winter no-one goes swimming at all because the seaweed is so horrible and the currents are even stronger than in the summer.

The extreme weather we get in Tiree is only storms in the winter, we don’t really get floods but sometimes the sea goes up to the dunes.

I think global warming will affect us because Tiree is very flat so if the sea levels rise we’ll go under water in 20 years.

I think it is our job to look after the natural world. People drive around in their cars when they don’t need to and the more they do that, the more it is hurting nature.

How did they do that?

Atlantic Rising is a project that connects coastal communities threatened by rising sea levels according to some projections of the impact of climate change.  

The project team have just set out on a journey around the north Atlantic rim.  They will visit schools along the route and form a network of students. 

All the schools will also be invited to join the Rafi.ki which is running a project called "Changing Climate" for schools all around the world, building up to the Copenhagen summit in December (charges apply).  

World Class will be reporting on the Atlantic Rising journey - watch out to find out how your school can get involved. 

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