Harvey's 'Biblical' rainfall is getting more likely
WASHINGTON (AP) " The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before the end of the century, a new study says.Study author Kerry Emanuel, a meteorology professor and hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that what was once an extremely rare event " 20 inches of rain over a large area of Texas " could soon be almost common.From [...]
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