US cold snap was a freak of nature, quick analysis finds

[rangerrebew]

US cold snap was a freak of nature, quick analysis finds
[Associated Press]
SETH BORENSTEIN
,Associated Press•January 11, 2018
 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consider this cold comfort: A quick study of the brutal American cold snap 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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-cold-snap-freak-nature-quick-analysis-finds-140502572.html

[jmyrlefuller]

The study, based on observations and statistics, did not find evidence for a popular scientific theory that links melting Arctic sea ice to blasts of cold air escaping the top of the world.