A host of extreme weather this year brings added intensity to what some have called the most ambitious, and possibly most critical, convergence of global powers to discuss climate change in decades.
Extreme cold knocked out power to parts of Texas early in the same year that brought an unprecedented heat dome and temperatures as high as 117 degrees F to the typically temperate Pacific Northwest. Huge wildfires, fueled by drought conditions, have singed major swathes of California. And Hurricane Ida clobbered Louisiana before...