Welcome to the Parada podcast, a podcast that takes 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech, business, and politics, sponsored by TSX Broadway.

Filling in for Dan Primack, I'm Kim Hart. On today's show, British Prime Minister Theresa May suffers a key defeat in Brexit negotiations, and a sizable chunk of 18 to 27-year-olds expect to never be able to pay off their debt.

But first, the polar vortex has split, and that means we're about to see some frequent

cold weather outbreaks in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Last week, Axis reported that scientists were seeing signs that global weather patterns were

shifting to usher in unusually cold and snowy weather patterns in the latter half of January

and into February. As Axius Science Editor Andrew Friedman writes, the changes are being triggered

by a sudden warming of air some 100,000 feet above the Arctic. In this case, it's sending cold air to the

south and leading to a more wintry winter than we've seen in years past. The polar vortex in this

case has actually split

into three and is pushing cold air into spots across Eurasia and North America. In the past,

polar vortex splits have ushered in major snowstorms, and events like that can have major

ramifications for energy markets, including spikes and natural gas prices. In 15 seconds,

we'll go deeper into what this polar vortex really

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Joining us in the studio is Andrew Friedman, our resident expert on climate science, to tell us more about what's happening.

So let's start with the basics.

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