The extreme cold snap that left millions of Americans without power in Texas last winter appears to have become more probable as Arctic sea ice melts thousands of miles apart, according to a study.
In this case, the atmospheric waves carried the impact of climate change in the Arctic across parts of North America and Asia.
The Texas February 2021 cold snap is a poster child “for the link between a changing Arctic and cooler latitudes, said climate scientist Jennifer Francis, of the Woodwell Climate Science Center on Cape Cod, who co-founded Arctic Connecting Theory but wasn ‘t part of Cohen’s research.
In this case, big shifts in the Arctic are not only a local problem. They have a profound impact throughout North America and parts of Asia.
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Over the past three decades, the Arctic region has seen some of the world’s biggest climate change events, including rapidly rising temperatures, melting sea ice, decreasing spring snow cover and more and more snowfall last autumn.
