is climate change the reason we will have record low temps in most of the U.S. next week?

Yes.  Why do you think it's a record?

go check the temps in Alaska

I see you know as little about our climate as you do about being an American! Sorry but being a Trumpette seems to lower peoples IQ.

Sort of, yes. It is hard to point to any one specific occurrence and say "that is climate change." The point of climate change is that it's about large trends over a long period of time- overall, the Earth's temperature is warming. Overall, the weather is becoming more erratic. There is always hot and cold weather, there is always weird weather that surprises people. That's not new. Climate change is the idea that /in general, we will see more erratic weather in coming years/.

The record low temperatures are due to changes in the jet stream. The jet stream is the system of air currents that move around the world in the atmosphere. They control the weather because they carry storms and air. One effect of climate change is that the jet stream is changing. It is becoming less predictable and more unstable.

No that is caused by global warming

Possible, but it's pretty hard to say that any one event is caused by GW. P

Its called a cold Front  filed under  Weather

Climate change is the reason our climate is changing - yes.

Yes, the Sun is transitioning into an inactive cycle called a Solar Grand Minimum. This is a natural occurrence that has been happening for billions of years.

This solar cycle has been predicted to last 30 or more years. Political climate science has dictated an opposing view, that blames Mankind's burning of fossil fuels as the driving force for changing Earth's climate. This is nothing but political nonsense, mankind cannot affect changes in the Sun, Galactic Cosmic Ray flux, solar orbital variances or planetary orbital variances.

Man has no control over the Earth's climate, Nature will not be fooled by "junk science".

Yes, warming upsets the jet stream

Like many uninformed people, you are apparently under the misapprehension that climate change comprises some steady increase to tropical temperatures.

It does not.  In reality, it comprises unusual and volatile weather, among other things.  And you might be surprised to learn, very cold temperatures can result in some parts of the US from unusually warm temperatures elsewhere.

For example, last January's extremely cold polar vortex (it dropped to 25 below here in Chicago) was at least partly caused by melting ice at the North Pole.  Don't believe it?  

Ask a meteorologist.