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17 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"US conservatives falsely blame renewables for Texas storm outages" - when the reality is that this blast of cold weather in the US is driven heating in the Arctic effecting the polar vortex (see tweets below). #ClimateCrisis
theguardian.com/us-news/2021/f…
Despite the mounting evidence of polar vortex disruption by global heating, causing unusual warming of the Arctic, driving unusual cold conditions in the southern US (see this article from 2019), it is not being mentioned much.
nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/1…
As the above article was from 2019 it was quite prophetic in forecasting the record breaking cold conditions causing chaos in the US at the moment (as was the article below, published before the current cold blast).
nationalgeographic.com/environment/20…
US Conservatives and vested interests bizarrely see this as an opportunity to attack concerns over the climate crisis and the drive for renewable energy, simply because it's counter-intuitive that blasts of cold air in specific southern location can be driven by a warming Arctic.
As usual, lies and propaganda centres on trying to distract the public from seeing the big picture. This is a localised cold blast (temporary) in one particular location, whilst the big picture is one of global heating.

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