This article is hilarious it literally finds a way to blame everything on climate change. The best part is they say we don't have enough power for today's needs and that we need to solve climate change to help but they never mention that moving to electric cars uses power. Please feel free to read this garbage piece and post your favorite sections for comment.
Here is mine. I love how they blame the deaths on climate change. No one takes the blame for a shitty power grid, no its just climate change. I mean why else would it be cold in Buffalo NY.
Cities across the US are increasingly going dark at the worst moments. A record-breaking blizzard in Buffalo, New York, this winter caused power outages throughout the city, resulting in the deaths of 47 residents. In 2021, a heat wave led to power outages and the deaths of hundreds in the Pacific Northwest. Texas shocked the world when a winter storm shut down power for more than 11 million people for several days in 2021, which resulted in 700 deaths, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis. And on Christmas Eve, record-breaking freezing temperatures caused millions of people in the South — 500,000 just in North Carolina — to lose power when the regional energy giants Duke Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority were forced to do their first-ever preventive rolling blackouts.
And it's becoming clear that these events are linked to the worsening climate crisis. An expansive new report by top climate scientists found that the Pacific Northwest heat wave was 43 times more likely due to human influence on the climate. And a 2019 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that the number of days that reached temperatures over 90 degrees in Ohio would likely triple to 30 to 70 days a year by midcentury.
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Here is mine. I love how they blame the deaths on climate change. No one takes the blame for a shitty power grid, no its just climate change. I mean why else would it be cold in Buffalo NY.
Cities across the US are increasingly going dark at the worst moments. A record-breaking blizzard in Buffalo, New York, this winter caused power outages throughout the city, resulting in the deaths of 47 residents. In 2021, a heat wave led to power outages and the deaths of hundreds in the Pacific Northwest. Texas shocked the world when a winter storm shut down power for more than 11 million people for several days in 2021, which resulted in 700 deaths, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis. And on Christmas Eve, record-breaking freezing temperatures caused millions of people in the South — 500,000 just in North Carolina — to lose power when the regional energy giants Duke Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority were forced to do their first-ever preventive rolling blackouts.
And it's becoming clear that these events are linked to the worsening climate crisis. An expansive new report by top climate scientists found that the Pacific Northwest heat wave was 43 times more likely due to human influence on the climate. And a 2019 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that the number of days that reached temperatures over 90 degrees in Ohio would likely triple to 30 to 70 days a year by midcentury.
America's electrical grid is headed for a total meltdown
Major power outages are more common and last longer than they did 10 years ago. It's a sign our electric grid is unprepared for the climate crisis.
