It stands to reason (even though climate change deniers can rarely be considered rational) that with more water vapor in the atmosphere due to warming global temperatures -- which there is -- weather systems which involve rain would be able to create more precipitation.
And apparently, they do. This is not a surprise, but it's a good confirmation.
Climate change has intensified hurricane rainfall, and now we know how much
"Today, we know that Harvey wasn’t an outlier. A new study, published Wednesday in Nature by the same lab, reports that climate change intensified the rains of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria by between 4 and 9 percent. The researchers predict that future warming could increase rainfall totals for the most extreme hurricanes and tropical cyclones by up to 30 percent."So, more now, and even more later -- potentially causing more flooding, and thus more dangerous conditions, and thus a higher likelihood of fatalities.
Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, which cause Earth's temperature to increase, cause more bad weather. And that sure isn't part of a hoax or a conspiracy, it's a fact.
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