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<div class="media--reel_container"><ul class="media--reel" data-count="1"></ul><div class="media--reel_controls" data-count="1"> <span class="icon disabled" data-arrow="prev">1 of 1</span> <span class="icon" data-arrow="next">2 of 1</span> <span class="icon" data-arrow="enlarge"></span></div></div><ul class="media--reel_meta"></ul></div><p>For people who've been paying attention to climate change, this is the summer when its effects are most obvious.</p><p>A record amount of ground was scorched in British Columbia by forest fires.</p><p>Serious flooding occurred in Montreal, Ottawa, and Kelowna.</p><p>And the most horrific impact has been in Texas, where Hurricane Harvey has dumped a record amount of rainfall on Houston, turning roadways into rivers.</p><p>The storm remained fairly stationary for a while over the Gulf of Mexico. That's because a high-pressure system—causing hot temperatures over much of western North American—prevented it from moving inland.</p><p>Warm waters in the gulf resulted in what was a tropic storm to double in intensity to become Hurricane Harvey.</p><p>"A warmer ocean means more rain," the climate-justice group 350.org explained. "The Gulf of Mexico was anywhere from 2 to 7 degrees hotter [Fahrenheit] than usual before Harvey—well above 80 degrees [Fahrenheit] in total. That means more water evaporated into the storm, and more rain dumped on people on shore."</p><p>But despite all of this, crackpot writer Ann Coulter isn't convinced that climate change has contributed to the fury of the storm.</p><p>The proof comes in one of her recent tweets, which you can see below.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" width="380"><a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849">https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849</a></blockquote><p>Coulter has 1.68 million followers on Twitter, including President Donald Trump.</p><p>Trump only follows 45 people or organizations on Twitter—and only 27 if you don't count his family members, his companies, Vice President Mike Pence, and the White House.</p><p>That likely gives Coulter more influence over the president than all of the establishment media combined.</p></div><div id="pressboard-ad-sponsorship-msg"></div> <footer> </footer><div class="doodads"> <aside class="box 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