Hurricane Harvey dropped an unprecedented amount of rain on a vulnerable area. How much of that is the fault of human-caused climate change? Before the floodwaters had even left Houston, Michael Wehner was working on that question. He is a scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Harvey Would Have Been Bad; Climate Change Made It Worse
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