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Wasn't the extreme cold front in Texas which left a bunch of people without power ultimately a result of climate change as well? When dealing with complex inte
by TheAceOfHearts 5y ago
Wasn't the extreme cold front in Texas which left a bunch of people without power ultimately a result of climate change as well?
When dealing with complex interconnected systems there's rarely going to be a single factor to which all problems can be attributed.
- rossdavidh 5y agoProving that any one weather event is a result of climate change is tricky, but I don't doubt that you're correct. The Guardian was talking about the current summer issues, though, where we don't have widespread outages yet but they are asking people to cut back on electricity usage because we are at risk of it. And having 97 degree weather in Texas in June is just not unusual, so that cannot plausibly be attributed to climate change. Four days of freezing weather and several inches of snow, in central Texas, is another kettle of fish, and is quite unusual. But as I read the article that wasn't what they were referring to.