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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full">This aerial photo shows the Flint Hills Resources oil refinery near downtown Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.&nbsp;</div>
                            <div class="caption-truncated">This aerial photo shows the Flint Hills Resources oil refinery near downtown Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.&nbsp;</div>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full">Oil refinery storage tanks stand in this aerial photograph taken above Texas City, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Unprecedented flooding from the Category 4 storm that slammed into the state's coast last week, sending gasoline prices surging as oil refineries shut, may also set a record for rainfall in the contiguous U.S., the weather service said Tuesday. <a class="more-caption"> less</a></div>
                            <div class="caption-truncated">Oil refinery storage tanks stand in this aerial photograph taken above Texas City, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Unprecedented flooding from the Category 4 storm that slammed into the state's coast<a class="more-caption"> ... more</a></div>
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</div><!-- e src/business/widgets/hearst/collection/widget.tpl --></div><p>"This is not like anything we have ever seen before:"</p>
<p>Houston markets itself as the energy capital of the world. Many of the largest firms in the oil and gas sector, including Phillips 66, are based there. And many more, including ExxonMobil and Dutch Royal Shell, own huge refining complexes along the region's coastline. Houston's petrochemical industry turns crude oil and other raw materials drawn from around the Western Hemisphere into gasoline and other petroleum products to be shipped as far away as Asia.</p>
<p>We have some idea of the short-term impacts. The storm has:</p>
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<ul><li>as of Monday evening, shut down 12 percent, or 2.2 million barrels, of U.S. refining capacity.</li>
<li>that, in turn, has driven up gasoline prices up as much as 6.8 percent since Friday.</li>
<li>As of Sunday, Exxon shut down its Baytown refinery, the second largest in the United States</li>
<li>Shell has shut down its Deer Park refinery.</li>
<li>&nbsp;And at least four energy export terminals in Corpus Christi have halted shipments, Reuters reported.</li>
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<!-- / hearst/ads/duplicatable.tpl --><p>But the long-term impacts to the oil and gas sector - how badly, if at all, that infrastructure is damaged - have yet to be assessed. <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/houston/" target="_blank">An extremely prescient piece by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune</a> last year lays out the risk flooding poses to the Texas Gulf Coast petroleum industry:</p>
<p>"Flooding is the most disruptive type of damage an industrial plant can experience from a hurricane. Salty ocean water swiftly corrodes critical metal and electrical components and contaminates nearby freshwater sources used for operations. Even plants that aren't flooded would likely have to shut down because they depend on storm-vulnerable infrastructure - electric grids, pipelines, roads and rail lines. [After a direct-hit storm] the Ship Channel itself - a crucial lifeline for crude imports and chemical exports - would probably be littered with debris and toxins, officials say. It would have to be cleaned up before ships and tankers could move safely again."</p>
<p>We may already be seeing the first signs of some of that environmental fallout. As The New Republic's Emily Atkin reports, " '[u]nbearable' petrochemical smells are reportedly drifting into Houston."</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Because of its unprecedented nature,</strong> the storm has again reopened the debate over the link between climate change and hurricanes.</p>
<p>But it would be wrong to conclude that climate change "caused" this storm.</p>
<p>"Attributing a particular event to anything, whether it's climate change or anything else, is a badly posed question, really," MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel told The Washington Post's Chris Mooney, who literally wrote the book on the connection between hurricanes and climate change.</p>
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<!-- / hearst/ads/duplicatable.tpl --><p>The question Did climate change cause Harvey? isn't really the right one. The better way to frame thinking about the connection is through the question: Does climate change make storms like Harvey more likely?</p>
<p>In several respects, the answer is yes. Here's why:</p>
<p><strong>A warmer climate makes storms wetter:</strong>&nbsp;Greenhouse gases trap more heat in the atmosphere, and that warmer air can hold more moisture. That causes, in turn, storms to on average dump more rain.</p>
<p><strong>A warmer climate makes storm surges worse:</strong> Global warming raises sea levels through a one-two combination: The higher temperatures melt glaciers, adding more water to the oceans, while the extra heat expands that water. Consequently, waters whipped up by a hurricane - that is, storm surge - reach further inland than they otherwise would.</p>
<p><strong>A warmer climate may make hurricanes more intense: </strong>Finally, there's some research that suggests that the average storm is expected to be more intense due to climate change.</p>
<p>Perhaps the best way to think about the connection is like a general. In the U.S. military, climate change is regarded as a "threat multiplier" - a force that makes existing risks to world peace, like droughts and floods that can trigger wars, worse.</p>
<p>Put another way: Hurricanes will form in the Gulf of Mexico during August with or without any greenhouse gas emissions. But climate change makes those storms more dangerous.</p>
<p>"We can't say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change," Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State, wrote in The Guardian. "But it was certainly worsened by it."</p>
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<p><strong>In the coming weeks and months</strong>, environmentalists, scientists and their elected Democratic allies will politicize the storm.</p>
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<!-- / hearst/ads/duplicatable.tpl --><p>And why not? After all, politics is, according to one classic definition, "who gets what, when, and how." And right now, the Trump administration wants to give very little to government programs designed to mitigate or adapt to the effects of climate change.</p>
<p>But already, we're seeing signs that such demands will be reframed as insensitive point-scoring while Houston is still inundated.</p>
<p>Even with the city still underwater, disaster-relief politics are underway. As Vox's David Roberts points out: "Recall that 20 members of the Texas congressional delegation, who are now desperately requesting help, voted against federal aid to New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy."</p>
<p>Unlike so many GOP leaders, many of the oil and gas firms operating in Houston at the very least publicly acknowledge the legitimacy of today's climate science. Republicans who, to various degrees, are not persuaded by the large body of evidence telling us the burning of fossil fuels - like those refined and transported in and around Houston - are warming the planet may have to answer some hard questions.</p>
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