"In general, the way to think about it is: climate change has changed the environment that everything is happening in," says Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. "When you add in the climate's natural variability and then the right conditions come along, you can get a storm which is stronger than you might otherwise have expected." In the article How Climate Change Likely Strengthened Recent Hurricanes , by Craig Welch, he analyzes Harvey and what were the likely causes to make it the way it was. Welch breaks down the behavior of this monstrous hurricane by how the storm intensified rapidly, why it stalled out over one area, and how it was able to dumped record rains for days and days; in the end, relating it all back to the change it climate over the years.
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