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A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response

A sprawling winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, grounded thousands of flights and disrupted travel across the eastern half of the U.S. could be the first real test of the second Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The president has said that he wants to eliminate FEMA, and the agency has lost thousands of employees since his second term began. Emergency-management experts have braced for the moment that a weakened FEMA would face a multi-state disaster.

Just to be clear, as I believe I’ve said before, I do not want FEMA eliminated, it should be returned to its original mission, which was coordination, not running everything.

Scientists agree that human-caused warming has changed the way air and energy move around the planet in complex and interrelated ways that influence outbreaks of extreme winter weather.

The current cold wave is not happening in isolation, but in a fundamentally altered climate system. At a basic level, the oceans are warmer and the atmosphere holds more moisture than 50 or 100 years ago. Both fuel stronger storms, including nor’easters, which have intensified significantly in recent decades, according to a 2024 study.

Same old cult talking points

Nor’easters spin up along the East Coast, drag subtropical moisture from the south and pull frigid polar air from the north. Both their maximum wind speeds and hourly precipitation rates have increased since 1940, said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann, a co-author of the paper.

That research, he said via email, for the first time was able to quantify the changes. He warned that “more intense storms, with greater amounts of snowfall” are to be expected, even as the planet warms.

“Stronger storms, as they spin, pull up more warm air on one side and pull more cold air down on the other side, so we see both warm and cold temperature extremes associated with them,” he said.

How about the snow storm of 1804, which dropped 48 inches? Or 1888 with 58 inches? The Great Blizzard Of 1899? It got a name! There have been plenty prior to CO2 breaking the mythical 350ppm. 103 inches in 1966. Were these all caused by ‘climate change’? Do normal people believe this BS? All the media is pulling this cult talking point out of their butts, like here and here. It’s all rather cultish.