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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>Sometimes a simple tweet can convey a great deal.</p><p>Take the one below as an example.</p><p>It's from <em>Years of Living Dangerously</em>, which produces documentaries on climate change, which are broadcast on the National Geographic channel.</p><p>It explains why the severe flooding in Texas is linked to global warming.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" width="380"><a href="https://twitter.com/YEARSofLIVING/status/902176734078017537">https://twitter.com/YEARSofLIVING/status/902176734078017537</a></blockquote><p>Here's the text:</p><p>"Hurricane Harvey is pounding Texas.</p><p>"While hurricanes are nothing new, this one is.</p><p>"A couple of days before it hit, Harvey was still a tropical storm.</p><p>"But the waters of the gulf are so hot it more than doubled in intensity in 38 hours.</p><p>"It's also larger and packing more rain than typical storms...</p><p>"The affected area could get as much as 10 months of rain in just a few days.</p><p>"There is a reason behind all of this: as the planet gets hotter, oceans and lakes evaporate more...which leads to more water vapour in the air...which makes for more intense rainfall and more flooding.</p><p>"Climate scientists have also discovered that more heat on the surface of the oceans gives more energy to storms...which means not only more Harveys but more category 4 and 5 hurricanes coming our way.</p><p>"In other words...climate change is making the world's wet areas wetter.</p><p>"And as we can see...that's not good.</p><p>"These are #climate facts. Share widely."</p><p>This message was retweeted by the United Nations climate secretariat along with this message: "Good explainer by @YEARSofLIVING of how #climatechange made #harvey as destructive as it is".</p><p>For a more detailed examination about how climate change disrupts hydrological cycles, I recommend a book called <em>Storm Warning: Water and Climate Security in a Changing World</em>.</p><p>Written by Alberta climate researcher Robert William Sandford, it delves into detail about why a warmer atmosphere can carry more water vapour.</p><p>He describes how <a href="https://www.straight.com/blogra/638096/atmospheric-rivers-can-cause-havoc-communities-and-economy">"atmospheric rivers"</a> of moist air can derive tremendous energy as a result of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausius%E2%80%93Clapeyron_relation">Clausius-Clapeyron relation</a>, which is a mathematical formula showing that vapour pressure steadily increases as the temperature rises.</p><p>In other words, Sandford writes in the book, "the warmer the air, the more water atmospheric rivers can carry".</p><p>That was on display in southern Alberta when torrential rains flooded downtown Calgary and caused havoc in High River. </p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/atmrivers/">Earth System Research Laboratory website</a>, atmospheric rivers are, on average, 400 to 600 kilometres wide.</p><p>"A strong AR transports an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5–15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River," the website notes.</p><p>In the meantime, here's what the climate-justice group 350.org has said about "how climate change contributed to Harvey's enormous, unnatural impacts" [the rest of what's posted came from a 350.org email sent out today]:</p><ul><li>Rising sea levels. Oceans have risen by more than a foot since 1960 in the Texas Gulf Coast. That's one more foot of storm surge that washed into homes and communities when Harvey made landfall.<br /><br /></li><li>A warmer ocean means more rain. 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.<br /><br /></li><li>A warmer ocean also means stronger storms. Harvey rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane with winds above 135 miles an hour in just 48 hours. A hotter planet and a hotter ocean make this rare rapid intensification event more likely.</li></ul><p>Denying climate science makes you unprepared for climate disasters. Here's how Trump's climate denial, racism and callousness are creating a truly unnatural disaster:</p><ul><li>Deregulating Big Oil’s toxic pollution. 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