Posts Tagged ‘Peril’

Mimicking fish and tailoring radar to warn of bridge peril

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.

Policy Peril Segment 3 - Hurricanes

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