This week, catastrophic winter weather led to nearly two dozen deaths and left millions without power across the central and eastern U.S. Read about what's driving the latest historic storms, their connection to our climate crisis, and why wind turbines are not the problem.
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A huge winter storm sweeping across the southern US has killed at least 21 people and left millions without power. There have been widespread blackouts in Texas, where the energy grid was overwhelmed by a …
The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis Associating climate change, normally connected with roasting heat, with an unusual winter storm that has crippled swaths of Texas and brought freezing temperatures across …
The U.S. has endured a wild stretch of harsh winter weather lately thanks to an invasion of the infamous polar vortex. It may be counterintuitive, but could global warming have caused this? First, an explainer: The polar vortex is a gigantic circular upper-air weather pattern in the Arctic that …
CNN — The dangerous cold across the Central and Southern US has brought extremely low temperatures – and unusually long stretches of time without much warming. Here is a sample of cold stretches for some locations and where they rank historically: Ice is removed from a plane in Houston. David J. …
