{"id":12313,"date":"2017-09-02T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12313"},"modified":"2017-09-02T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T02:48:10","slug":"harvey-and-climate-change-the-truth-is-probably-in-the-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/09\/harvey-and-climate-change-the-truth-is-probably-in-the-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey and climate change? The truth is probably in the middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the news since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas you likely saw more than one story about how Harvey&#8217;s rains were or were not influenced by climate change. \u00a0If you are confused, you are not alone. \u00a0Here is an article by Jason Samenow of the <em>Capital Weather Gang<\/em> that provides a no-nonsense look at what aspects of the storm may have been influenced by factors commonly associated with global warming, such as rising sea levels and higher sea surface temperatures, and what probably did not affect it. I hope you will find it to be well-reasoned and balanced. \u00a0You can read it for yourself at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/09\/01\/the-truth-about-harvey-and-climate-change-is-in-the-middle\/?utm_term=.6090010716a4\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2017\/09\/01\/the-truth-about-harvey-and-climate-change-is-in-the-middle\/?utm_term=.6090010716a4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12216\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/harvey-flooding.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Kevin Selle via Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the news since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas you likely saw more than one story about how Harvey&#8217;s rains were or were not influenced by climate change. \u00a0If you are confused, you are not alone. \u00a0Here is an article by Jason Samenow of the Capital Weather Gang that provides a no-nonsense look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}