Read the Los Angeles Times article entitled, “Is climate change behind all of these ‘100 year’ floods?” posted at http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=ab0ac235-3eeb-4e15-8bc9-722ea3fd9661
Let’s do some fact checking. What we want to know is whether the following are true.
• Does the Clausius-Claperyon Equation really give results that every 0.5C of warming mean an additional 3% of water in the air?
• Does an increase of 1.5C in water temperature result in 5% more water in the air?
• Does the atmosphere hold more moisture as the water temperature increases?
According to https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/galveston-august.htm, the average water temperature in Galveston (the nearest city on the Gulf Coast just south of Houston) is 30.6C in August (when Harvey was forming and came on shore). Assuming that the atmospheric pressure is 1.000 atm, calculate the vapor pressure of water in the air when the water is 30.6C. (The normal boiling point of water is 373.15 K, and the enthalpy of vaporization of water is 40.65 kJ/mol.) Then calculate the vapor pressure of water when the water temperature is 31.1C, 31.6C, 32.1C, and 32.6C.
Do the calculated vapor pressures of water for different water temperatures support the information given in the article?
Read the article posted at https://www.npr.org/2017/12/16/571305346/harvey-dumped-up-to-127-billion-tons-of-water-on-texas. If the storm had the vapor pressure of water you calculated at 32.6C, what was the volume of Harvey (assuming all if its water vapor fell as rain on Houston)?
Use the information from your calculations to write a follow-up explainer that is 2 pages long (double spaced, 11 point Calibri or Arial) for a science oriented newspaper or magazine (e.g. Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/). Be sure to include some “science background” about the equations and methods you used for your calculations.

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