"Harvey is weather not climate,"
This is true.
" it would still not be reasonably possible to tie Harvey in to climate change"
For deniers, nothing is possible when it comes to global warming/climate change.
" Individual hurricanes are weather not climate,"
Climate is the "average weather" over a period of time for a region (or planet)
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TCN | Analysis finds heaviest downpours more frequent in Texas, 39 other states
May 31, 2015
With all the death and destruction that intense storms and massive flooding visited on Texas and Oklahoma this week, a new research report by the nonprofit Climate Central is especially sobering....
From the Climate Central report, issued last Wednesday:
Record-breaking rain across Texas and Oklahoma this week caused widespread flooding, the likes of which the region has rarely, if ever, seen. For seven locations there [including Houston], May 2015 has seen the most rain of any month ever recorded, with five days to go and the rain still coming. While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Niño, the unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal, where a warming atmosphere becomes more saturated with water vapor and capable of previously unimagined downpours.
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Harv sure didn't do anything to disprove this. |
