Recent cold snap can't be blamed on climate change, study finds
Similar events are actually 15 times rarer than they were a century ago
The Associated Press
January 11, 2018
Montreal Weather 20180105
Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal recent cold snap in Canada and the U.S. found that the Arctic blast really wasn't global warming but a freak of nature.
Frigid weather like the two-week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real-time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.
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