Extreme weather is causing power grids across the country to fail — sometimes at massive scales — putting residents at increased health risk as scientists predict an uptick in frequency of severe weather events in the future.
The effects of global warming are worsening in every part of the United States, according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a breakdown of the latest in climate science coming from 14 different federal agencies, published in November.
“You can see the trend, and there’s an increased frequency of extreme events due to climate change,” Max Zhang, an engineering professor at Cornell University, told ABC News.