We’re Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In
www.scientificamerican.com
external-link
NOAA precipitation estimates that engineers and planners use to design bridges, roads and other infrastructure are decades out of date because of climate change
1chemistdown
link
fedilink
11Y

What, you expected something different than the usual human reactionary model in place? No, no. You will get this stuff when it starts affecting people in a much larger population. When over 50% of the population is inconvenienced at the same time by the same events repeatedly, it will cause a reactionary change that will be equally bad in the opposite direction.

Create a post

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.


Guidelines for submissions:
  • Where possible, post the original source of information.
    • If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
  • Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
  • Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
  • Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
  • Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


For US News, see the US News community.


This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

  • 1 user online
  • 26 users / day
  • 64 users / week
  • 168 users / month
  • 663 users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 2.74K Posts
  • 15K Comments
  • Modlog