False, New York Times, Climate Change Doesn’t Cause Both Extreme Heat and Extreme Cold
Watts Up With That? [Unofficial]
February 9, 2026
Gelles should acknowledge that the scientific expectation in a warming world has long been for fewer cold extremes. Observations largely confirm that expectation. The idea of warming “fueling” cold extremes may play better into the narrative that humans are causing dangerous climate extremes and wild weather swings, but it is factually wrong.
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