Another day, another prognostication of doom. Do any of the climate youts even know what tinkertoys are?
Climate Change Can Cause Bridges to ‘Fall Apart Like Tinkertoys,’ Experts Say
On a 95-degree day this summer, New York City’s Third Avenue Bridge, connecting the Bronx and Manhattan, got stuck in the open position for hours. As heat and flooding scorched and scoured the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa with South Dakota collapsed under surging waters. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge closed after the pavement buckled from fluctuating temperatures.
America’s bridges, a quarter of which were built before 1960, were already in need of repair. But now, extreme heat and increased flooding linked to climate change are accelerating the disintegration of the nation’s bridges, engineers say, essentially causing them to age prematurely.
The result is a quiet but growing threat to the safe movement of people and goods around the country, and another example of how climate change is reshaping daily life in ways Americans may not realize.
“We have a bridge crisis that is specifically tied to extreme weather events,” said Paul Chinowsky, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder who researches the effects of climate change on infrastructure. “These are not things that would happen under normal climate circumstances. These are not things that we’ve ever seen at this rate.”
A 1.6F increase in the global temperature is not going to doom all the bridges. This is a doomsday cult, though, so, there’s always something they can cray doom about.
Bridges may very well start collapsing but it will not be due to global warming. It will be due to all the bridge and highway toll money and all the gas taxes stolen by crooked politicians that was supposed to be used for “infrastructure”. It is amazing the huge sums of money that just vanish in this country.
I see Venezuelan gangs are taking over apartment buildings in democrat run, marxist controlled Chicago. How can this be? Maybe they’re setting up for the election steal?
Maybe they need to establish a local police force or maybe even a multijurisdictional task force that includes federal agencies.
Mr Teach is willfully ignorant about global warming, typing: A 1.6F increase in the global temperature is not going to doom all the bridges.
We will remind him that 1.6F is the mean (average) surface temperature. Some places may have July temperatures 5F higher than normal for most of the month. The average rainfall there may increase 5 inches/mo but it is dumped over 2 days instead of 20 causing acute flooding.
But Mr Teach has a job to do here.
“Some places may…”
And Rimjob claims others are woefully ignorant while excluding himself.