NAS: Global Warming Will Affect Transport System (2008.3.11)

2008.03.11. Climate change will affect every type of transportation through rising sea levels, increased rainfall and surges from more intense storms, the National Research Council said in a report.

The report cites five major areas of growing threat:

— More heat waves, requiring load limits at hot-weather or high-altitude airports and causing thermal expansion of bridge joints and rail track deformities.

— Rising sea levels and storm surges flooding coastal roadways, forcing evacuations, inundating airports and rail lines, flooding tunnels and eroding bridge bases.

— More rainstorms, delaying air and ground traffic, flooding tunnels and railways, and eroding road, bridge and pipeline supports.

— More frequent strong hurricanes, disrupting air and shipping service, blowing debris onto roads and damaging buildings.

— Rising arctic temperatures thawing permafrost, resulting in road, railway and airport runway subsidence and potential pipeline failures.

The nation's transportation system was built for local conditions based on historical weather data, but those data may no longer be reliable in the face of new weather extremes, the report warns.

Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=4467631

More:

2008.03.11.
Report of National Academy of Sciences:

Climate Change Will Have a Significant Impact on Transportation Infrastructure and Operations
http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20080311.html


The effect of transport emissions on the climate
http://www.cicero.uio.no/fulltext/index_e.aspx?id=3032

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• transportation
• transport
• coastal
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• rise

[JonThm]

2010 the worst US winter for 90 years: Go outside some time!

[starrdreams]

One event do not prove or disprove anything. But if you like to see such events as proof, then what would you say about lack of snow in Vancouver? Or heatwave that puts Moscows white Christmas on hold? Etc,. if to pick specific local events in the world.

But anyway, increased amount of precipitation and weather extremes was named years ago as one of the consequences of global warming.

[JonThm]

@starrdreams The weather has short term cycles of 28 years. The US has teh coldest winter fro 90 years, CO2 NEVER had any effect - that was a nuclear lie!

[starrdreams]

Declined? Last decade is warmest on record. And 2009 was the warmest year on record.

[JonThm]

Since 1998 the globla average temperature has declined. GW was PR by nuclear power - your boss!

[JonThm]

The climate changes without help from man! We couldn't affect the weather - no matter how big our egos.

[JonThm]

The world is cooling: Get over it, and stop taking money from nuclear power

[starrdreams]

Yes, exactly - El Nino has nothing to do wtih GLOBAL anything. That's why 1998 doesn't count as "warmest".

[starrdreams]

World is not cooling - last decade was warmest on Record second warmest since 1880 and in the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record.

[JonThm]

El Nino has nothing to do wtih GLOBAL anything! The world is cooling, GW is nuclear spin! Do they pay well?