Texas Blackouts Raise Climate Warning.

And for decades before that, climate scientists had cautioned that a warming planet would cause climate chaos, raising the average global temperature while driving unusual weather events like this one. For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February--dropping several inches of snow and leaving millions without power --did not come as a surprise. [Extracted from the article]

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