[ClearCase_guy]

The study by the World Weather Attribution analyzed weather records dating back to 1880 and found the cold weather that hit a swath of the U.S. from Maine to Minnesota tends to happen once every 250 years. In the early 1900s, it happened about once every 17 years. Climate change has made such cold spells less common and less intense, the group said.

I just have to unpack this BS:

The study by the World Weather Attribution analyzed weather records dating back to 1880 and found the cold weather that hit a swath of the U.S. from Maine to Minnesota tends to happen once every 250 years.

Looking back over the past 130 years I can say that this sort of thing happens every 250 years. What?

In the early 1900s, it happened about once every 17 years.

But -- you just said -- going back to 1880, these things happened every 250 years. Now you say that around 1900 they were happening every 17 years? What?

Climate change has made such cold spells less common and less intense, the group said.

Let us note that the well documented Little Ice Age ended around 1850. As that Ice Age ended -- which is to say, as we came out of the Ice Age -- you say that cold spells became less common? This is fascinating. Will increasing my taxes help?

[Kozy]

Climate change has made such cold spells less common and less intense, the group said.

But you said they occur every 17 years not 250. Seventeen years is in less than a generation.