Texas blackouts show how vulnerable power grid is to climate change

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The winter storm outages in Texas reveal a broader crisis: Climate change-fueled disasters are overwhelming U.S. infrastructure.

More winter weather is expected to hit the southern and eastern U.S. in upcoming days. Utilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Southeast Texas have imposed rolling blackouts to ease pressure on strained power systems and to meet high demand for heat and electricity during frigid conditions.

The major outages from the storm reveal a broader crisis: Climate change is fueling more frequent and destructive hurricanes, heatwaves, droughts and other disasters that are overwhelming existing infrastructure across the country.analysis of national power outage dataPeople shop in Fiesta supermarket on February 16, 2021 in Houston, Texas.

Though global temperatures are rising due to the burning of fossil fuels, more scientific evidence finds that the type of extreme cold event happening in the U.S. this week is linked to rapid warming in the Arctic. Disruptions to the polar vortex, a low-pressure expanse of cold air that sits in polar regions, then sends

 

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HOW CAN YALL CALL IT CLIMATE CHANGE. THE CLIMATE CHANGES ALL THE TIME LOOK AT A CHART. IF IT GETS HOTTER OR COLDER YOU WIN HOW CONVENIENT.

It shows how vulnerable we are to politicians that use gimmicky crap to prioritize grifters over preparing public services for crises. Currently living through this disaster in SE Texas and it was 100% preventable.

it is only because utility companies are run badly. Texas had had winter before. What a joke!

Democrats: Global warming. The Earth is heating up, man and capitalism is causing this, we must act! Snow/ice storm hits Texas and causes power outages. Democrats: Man and Capitalism causing this snow and ice! We must act now!

Climate change .😂😂😂

Please cite your scientific literature that backs up the claim of climate change impacts of this cold wave in your article. Recent case study has weakened this link. Stop spreading falsehoods.

As I said to my wife, give it a couple of days, and soon the Global Warming Alarmists will blame the record setting frigid temperatures on Global Warming - they just have to come up with some fairy tale that even their followers will believe in.

Media just won't let go of the global warming propaganda even after record shattering cold.

No. It shows how vulnerable we are when we use 'green' energy.

Hey what happened to all that global warming?

What's really funny is CA/Wa/Or each summer and a few times in the winter have had more problems than Tx ever has had ! But Tx is a red State so any chance to pounce on it is a liberal feeding frenzy !

Was this severe weather caused by disruption to greenhouse gas flow on account of covid shutdowns? I saw it was 28 degrees on the Gulf of Mexico at Houston?! :o

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