https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-texas-winter-storms-arctic-cold/

BY JEFF BERARDELLI

FEBRUARY 20, 2021 / 7:20 AM/ CBS NEWS

For many, especially folks who live in the South, the arctic outbreak that has gripped the nation’s heartland for the past week is the kind of cold that only happens once in a century. Countless record cold temperatures were set. Conditions overwhelmed the Texas power grid, cutting off electricity to millions and bursting water pipes, creating a humanitarian crisis.

But withclimate changemaking for generally warmer winters and causing heat records to outnumber cold recordsby 2 to 1globally over the past decade, this historic cold snap may seem counterintuitive. It’s not. In fact, paradoxically, a warmer climate may have actually contributed to the extreme cold.

The science of meteorology has come a long way in the past few decades, so much so that meteorologistssaw this extreme winter weather comingmany weeks…