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														<aside class="lead">This week, our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey. As climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann wrote, “[W]e can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it.”
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	Ultimately, this is why climate change is a human issue – because the way we’re altering our climate has a real impact on our health, our livelihoods, and our homes. This video from Years of Living Dangerously explains what Hurricane Harvey has to do with climate change and what this means for our future:<br />
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			Today, our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey. As climate scientist Dr. Michael E. Mann wrote, “we can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it.” Ultimately, this is why climate change is a human issue – because the way we’re altering our climate has a real human impact. Watch this video from Years of Living Dangerously that explains what Hurricane Harvey has to do with climate change and what this means for our future.
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	Maybe you’ve heard the words “typhoon” and “hurricane” used interchangeably. Both are tropical cyclones in which the maximum sustained wind is 74 miles per hour or higher (119 kilometers per hour or higher). These tropical storms are called hurricanes <a href="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cyclone.html">when they occur in the Atlantic or the Northeast Pacific</a>.
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	<em>“Tropical cyclones are like giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel. That is why they form only over warm ocean waters near the equator. The warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface. Because this air moves up and away from the surface, there is less air left near the surface. Another way to say the same thing is that the warm air rises, causing an area of lower air pressure below.</em>
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	<em>Air from surrounding areas with higher air pressure pushes in to the low pressure area. Then that ‘new’ air becomes warm and moist and rises, too. As the warm air continues to rise, the surrounding air swirls in to take its place. As the warmed, moist air rises and cools off, the water in the air forms clouds. The whole system of clouds and wind spins and grows, fed by the ocean's heat and water evaporating from the surface.”</em>
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	<strong>1. By adding fuel to the fire, climate change makes hurricanes more devastating.</strong> Average global sea surface temperatures <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-surface-temperature">are rising</a>. As sea surface temperatures become warmer, hurricanes can become more powerful. In the case of the Category 4 Hurricane Harvey, this greater power comes from “<a href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/tropical-storm-harvey-2017">sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico that are 2.7 - 7.2°F (1.5 - 4°C) above average, relative to a 1961-1990 baseline.</a>”
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	<strong>2. Climate change is linked to extreme rainfall (and therefore, flooding). </strong>Global temperatures <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/">are rising</a>.&nbsp; As the world becomes warmer, more water evaporates from bodies of water. Therefore, there’s more water vapor in the air. This gives hurricanes more precipitation, and can result in more flooding when the hurricane makes landfall. The Weather Channel said that Hurricane Harvey “<a href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-hurricane-harvey-rain-flood-forecast-texas-louisiana">may end up being one of the worst flood disasters in US history</a>.” Some areas could see up to 50 inches of rain.&nbsp;
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	<strong>3. Sea-level rise caused by climate change can “dramatically extend the storm surge driven by hurricanes.” </strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/stormsurge-stormtide.html">According to NOAA</a>, a storm surge “is the abnormal rise in seawater level during a storm, measured as the height of the water above the normal predicted astronomical tide.” To put it another way, the storm surge is the ocean water pushed into the coast by the force of the hurricane. Global sea levels <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/">are rising</a>. &nbsp;When sea levels are higher, storm surges intensify and can lead to more widespread and greater damage. The highest-reported storm surge from Harvey (in Port Lavaca, Texas) was <a href="https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/heavy-damage-texas-harvey-now-tropical-storm">7 feet</a> above the mean sea level.<br />
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		<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash">#Harvey</a> has rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico, where waters are 2.7 - 7.2°F (1.5 - 4°C) above average <a href="https://t.co/FIuJgD2Hj3">https://t.co/FIuJgD2Hj3</a> <a href="https://t.co/Bw1lzNa2qV">pic.twitter.com/Bw1lzNa2qV</a>
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