(CNSNews.com) - The New York Times website this morning is featuring a story reporting that the “extremely low temperatures this week in parts of the U.S. may also be a result of warming.”

The front-page summary of this story says: “Here’s the climate change connection.”

The full New York Times story is headlined: “U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This is the Age of Weather Extremes.”

The Times story explains:

“As for the extremely low temperatures this week in parts of the United States, they stand in sharp contrast to the trend toward warmer winters. They may also be a result of warming, strangely enough.

“Emerging research suggests that a warming Arctic is causing changes in the jet stream and pushing polar air down to latitudes that are unaccustomed to them and often unprepared. Hence this week’s atypical child over large swatch of the Northeast and Midwest.”

The New York Times quoted a meteorologist from “Weather Underground” explaining that “climate change” will bring a “wider range of possibilities” for the weather: