Our Current Infrastructure was Built for a Different World
It's
easy to forget that every piece of our current infrastructure--roads,
rails, runways, bridges, industrial plants, housing--was built with a
certain temperature range in mind. Our agricultural system and much of
our electrical generating system (including dams, nuclear power stations
and conventional thermal electric plants which burn coal and natural
gas) were created not only with a certain temperature range in mind, but
also a certain range of rainfall. Rainfall, whether it is excessive or
absent, can become a problem if it creates 1) floods…Read more...
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