@climatenews "In February 2021, a polar vortex descended on the Great Plains, extending as far south as Texas, leaving more than 4.5 million homes and businesses without power and resulting in the deaths of more than 170 people. Studies have since linked the severe winter outbreak to climate change.(*) Due to the fact that the Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth, those higher temperatures have been shown to disrupt the behavior of polar vortices, weakening them so that they wander south over the continental U.S."

(*) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9167

#PolarVortex #ClimateCrisis #US #Elliot #ArcticBlast #WinterStormElliot

Edit: Added a link to the relevant scientific studie.