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															<h2 itemprop="description" class="synopsis">By the time the rain stops, Harvey will have dumped about 1 million gallons of water for every man, woman and child in southeastern Texas — a soggy, record-breaking glimpse of the wet and wild future that global warming could bring, scientists say.</h2>
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														</span><span class="custom-caption"><img class="wp-image-4820953 size-full" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif?m=1501797545h" alt="Hurricane Harvey, Texas, global warming effects, rainfall record, future hurricanes, heavy rainfall, climate science, warm air, warm seas, climate scientists, Arctic sea ice, jetstream, weather pattern changes, tropical system " data-lazy-src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/08/harvey-rescue1-comp.jpg"><noscript><img class="wp-image-4820953 size-full" src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/08/harvey-rescue1-comp.jpg" alt="Hurricane Harvey, Texas, global warming effects, rainfall record, future hurricanes, heavy rainfall, climate science, warm air, warm seas, climate scientists, Arctic sea ice, jetstream, weather pattern changes, tropical system " /></noscript> While scientists are quick to say that climate change didn&#8217;t cause Harvey and that they haven&#8217;t determined yet whether the storm was made worse by global warming, they do note that warmer air and water mean wetter and possibly more intense hurricanes in the future. (Image Credit: AP)</span>
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<p>&#8220;This is the kind of thing we are going to get more of,&#8221; said Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer. &#8220;This storm should serve as warning.&#8221; There&#8217;s a scientifically accepted method for determining if some wild weather event has the fingerprints of man-made climate change, and it involves intricate calculations. Those could take weeks or months to complete, and then even longer to pass peer review. In general, though, climate scientists agree that future storms will dump much more rain than the same size storms did in the past.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because warmer air holds more water. With every degree Fahrenheit, the atmosphere can hold and then dump an additional 4 percent of water (7 percent for every degree Celsius), several scientists say. Global warming also means warmer seas, and warm water is what fuels hurricanes. When Harvey moved toward Texas, water in the Gulf of Mexico was nearly 2 degrees (1 degree Celsius) warmer than normal, said Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters. Hurricanes need at least 79 degrees F (26 C) as fuel, and water at least that warm ran more than 300 feet (100 meters) deep in the Gulf, according to University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.</p>
<p>Several studies show that the top 1 percent of the strongest downpours are already happening much more frequently. Also, calculations done Monday by MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel show that the drenching received by Rockport, Texas, used to be maybe a once-in-1,800-years event for that city, but with warmer air holding more water and changes in storm steering currents since 2010, it is now a once-every-300-years event.</p>
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<p>Oppenheimer and some others theorize that there&#8217;s a connection between melting sea ice in the Arctic and changes in the jet stream and the weather patterns that make these &#8220;blocking fronts&#8221; more common. Others, like Masters, contend it&#8217;s too early to say. University of Washington atmospheric scientist Cliff Mass said that climate change is simply not powerful enough to create off-the-chart events like Harvey&#8217;s rainfall.</p>
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