Climate Change Messes with Texas

Stephen Mulkey
5 min readFeb 19, 2021

The discussion around the catastrophe in Texas is politically informative but it misses the main point. The strong polar cold that has dipped into the south of North America is a manifestation of climate change. Texans should plan to upgrade their grid and improve the ability of their power sources to function in cold because this will happen again. Methane pipelines and pumping stations failed as the system froze. As has been…

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Stephen Mulkey

Environmental scientist and educator; forest and climate change ecologist.