What Are The Causes Of Hurricane Harvey

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This article is about how people could have caused hurricane Harvey to be much worse than what it could have been. Climate scientists suggest that global warming made a bad situation worse. When global warming occurs it realesed greenhouse gasses into the earth which makes more heat be trapped in our atmosphere which led to faster evaporation. Harvey was thriving on unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. As the storm came toward Houston waters near Texas rose to between 2.7 and 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit above average. These waters were some of the hottest spots of ocean surface in the world. The tropical storm turned from a tropical depression to a category-four hurricane in roughly 48 hours. This article relates to the movie inside out

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