Climate change is making winter weather warmer and “weirder”

April 18, 2023

Source: CBS News

Excerpt:

It’s been a weird winter.

Record snow in Buffalo. Ice in Texas. A parade of atmospheric river storms in California. In parts of the Northeast and New England, January was one of the warmest months ever, followed by an historic cold snap in February.  

That news is one thing on my mind as I begin a journey to understand what role climate change is playing in unreliable winter weather. The other thing is how Americans of all political stripes work hard to live inside a perfectly controlled bubble of year-round, 72-degree air.  

Extremes are not our thing. 

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