"Trump has frequently peddled disinformation about the climate crisis over the years, and has dismantled a wide range of climate protections while in office. He has, for example, expanded non-renewable energy production in the U.S., including oil and coal, and early in his second term (as he did in his first), he withdrew the U.S. from the international Paris Climate Agreement."
"Climate scientists have noted that Trump's claims on the storm are not based in science, as warmer global temperatures - especially those in the Arctic - can actually result in weather phenomena like the polar vortex. Related Story Climate change made 2025 heat waves 10 times more likely, a new report finds. "Big waves like this are more common when the Arctic is unusually warm, and it's near record-warm right now," Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist and senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, told Inside Climate News."
President Donald Trump posted that a "Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before," and asked, "Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" Trump has promoted disinformation about the climate crisis and rolled back U.S. climate protections, expanding oil and coal production and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Climate scientists state that regional cold snaps do not contradict a warming planet. Warmer Arctic conditions can weaken typical circulation, displacing cold polar air southward and producing extreme cold in some regions while the Arctic remains unusually warm.
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