Expect shipping delays as climate changes, report says
New government report reveals the impact that climate change is already having in America, and what we can expect in the future.
Photo: General Wesc/Flickr Transportation planners have not typically accounted for climate change in their long-term planning and project development. The longevity of transportation infrastructure, the long-term nature of climate change, and the potential impacts identified by recent studies warrant serious attention to climate change in planning new or rehabilitated transportation systems.
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...so this slowdown is a major opportunity for rail to speak... oh, wait... no, rail is no better, it gets flooded as well.
Whether you believe in global warming or not is at least somewhat irrelevant to the question of whether we should alter our collective MO with respect to energy. From a prudence standpoint, we should act as though it is real because if we are wrong and go our merry way, merry way will equal history's dustbin. From a geo-political standpoint, we should be very hesitant to transfer so much wealth to a narrow band of humanity and expect to be allowed to go our merry way by those holding the purse.... More
I'm 53, live in Eastern Canada and the climate has not changed significantly in my life. Weather cycles are so long no one really knows what's coming. The Academics who are spouting off about it are in a publish or perish world so they have to sound an alarm to get grants. It's just too bad we have to listen to them. The only sure thing is that there are too many humans and until we get that under control there will be lots of trouble.
it ll be a great disater if this heating continues ,.,.i wonder this might increase earth water level to 100 %,...,
We have to adapt no matter what it will be in the future. And yes, this is a propaganda with the Global Warming.
ADAPTION is the key word
Global warming is just government propaganda, and further more this does not apply to San Diego because we have perfect weather all year round and plus **** don't travel far to get here because we are a mecca unto our OWN!!!
Best weather in the world 2nd to the Canary Islands... ;)
This is the same group that banned then fired/reassigned the scientists that disagreed with it.
