"Cold snaps can be deadly. A 2014 National Health Statistics report found, “During 2006–2010, about 2,000 U.S. residents died each year from weather-related deaths; 63% were attributed to exposure to natural cold.
The recent cold snap in Texas and Germany highlighted our energy system’s vulnerabilities.
During times of our greatest need, inadequate natural gas supplies, frozen wind turbines and snow-covered solar panels, left too many shivering in the dark.
Why were we unprepared for such cold when the northern hemisphere had been experiencing a winter cooling trend since 1990?
Were government officials too gullible, lulled by narratives that global warming would make snow disappear and cold snaps less likely?...Read all.
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