Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Floods cut down more bridges than fire, wind, earthquakes, deterioration, overloads and collisions combined, costing lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
Tags: Bridge, Bridges, Collisions, Deterioration, Earthquakes, Fire Wind, Fish, Floods, Peril, Radar
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Is global warming making hurricanes more destructive? Did global warming contribute to the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina? Would Kyoto-style energy rationing help avert future weather-related catastrophes? Well, just ask Al Gore! In An Inconvenient Truth , Gore claims there’s a “strong new emerging consensus” that global warming is increasing the duration and intensity of hurricanes (AIT, p. 81), he depicts New Orleans as a global warming victim (pp. 94-95), and the threat of
Tags: Al Gore, Catastrophes, Consensus, Devastation, Duration, Global Warming, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricanes, Inconvenient Truth, Intensity, Kyoto, New Orleans, Peril, Segment
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