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Step-by-step explanation:

higher temperatures increase evaporation, which dries out regions.

after all, warmer air can contain more water vapor before it condenses.

let's look at the other options :

warming ocean waters will prevent precipitation from forming.

it's a complex system. but warmer oceans will actually increase precipitation, but this rain is falling mostly back into the oceans right away, before it can travel further and reach land.

it will be too hot for water to condense and fall as rain.

that is the condition on Venus. thank God, we are still far from this.

melting ice traps more water in oceans than in the atmosphere.

no. more water and therefore higher sea levels increases the evaporation area of the oceans and would create more vapor and rain (see also the points above). but water vapor itself is a primary greenhouse gas, which then like in a run away chain reaction makes the atmosphere even warmer.

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