Name: 白宮稱德克薩斯風暴可能是由於氣候變化造成的 (White House says Texas storm likely due to climate change)
Uploaded: 2021-02-20T22:00:30.000Z
Duration: 1 min 56 s

the White House on Thursday blamed climate change for the severe winter storm engulfing Texas and nearby states.

白宮週四將吞噬德克薩斯州和附近各州的嚴重冬季風暴歸咎於氣候變化。

It was a stark rejection of what some Texas officials there saying that green energy was to blame for power outages.

這是對那裡的一些德州官員所說的綠色能源是停電的罪魁禍首的明確否定。

By late Thursday, some 325,000 households were still without power, down from several million the day before.

到週四晚些時候，約有32.5萬戶家庭仍處於停電狀態，比前一天的幾百萬戶有所減少。

In a phone briefing, White House adviser Liz Sherwood Randall told reporters that quote the extreme weather events that were experiencing this week do yet again demonstrate to us that climate change is real and it's happening now.

在電話簡報中，白宮顧問利茲-舍伍德-蘭德爾告訴記者，引用本週經歷的極端天氣事件確實再次向我們證明，氣候變化是真實的，而且現在正在發生。

She added the storm had exposed weaknesses in American power grid infrastructure that needed to be addressed.

她補充說，這場風暴暴露了美國電網基礎設施的弱點，需要解決。

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott had blamed the crisis earlier this week on Democratic efforts to replace fossil fuel with green energy sources, though on Thursday White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted that's not what the state's power agency said.

共和黨德州州長Greg Abbott本週早些時候曾將危機歸咎於民主黨用綠色能源取代化石燃料的努力，不過週四白宮新聞祕書Jen Psaki指出，這不是該州電力機構所說的。

Numerous reports have actually shown the contrary that it was failures in coal and natural gas that contributed to the state's power shortages and officials.

眾多的報道實際上已經顯示出相反的情況，正是煤炭和天然氣的故障導致了該州的電力短缺和官員。

That's Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state's power grid, have gone so far as to say that failures in wind and solar were the least significant factors in the blackouts.

這就是德克薩斯州的電力可靠性委員會，該委員會負責營運該州的電網，已經說，風能和太陽能的故障是停電中最不重要的因素。

President Joe Biden spoke with Abbott Lay on Thursday, according to a White House statement to discuss how the federal government could help meet the critical needs of those affected.

根據白宮的一份聲明，總統喬-拜登週四與阿博特-雷進行了交談，討論聯邦政府如何幫助滿足受影響者的關鍵需求。

The White House said Biden would also ensure to improve quote critical infrastructure so that it can be prepared to meet a full spectrum of challenges that were likely to face earlier this year.

白宮表示，拜登還將確保改善報價關鍵的基礎設施，以便它能夠準備好迎接今年早些時候可能面臨的全方位挑戰。

Abbott had fought Biden's green energy push by pausing new oil and gas leases and cutting fossil fuel subsidies.

阿博特曾通過暫停新的油氣租賃和削減化石燃料補貼來對抗拜登的綠色能源推動。

 He also did not initially acknowledge Biden's 2020 election win. 

他最初也沒有承認拜登在2020年選舉中獲勝。