Links tagged “transportation”
- Study: Global warming will damage roads – Current roads only built ‘to withstand pre-1995 climate’
I’M MELTING! — We’re building roads to withstand last century’s climate - Asphalt in use tolerates the temperature extremes of a period that ended in 1995.
- Study: ‘Climate change’ may be linked to spike in US road deaths in 2015 – ‘Death rate higher in warmer areas’
Study published in the Journal Injury Prevention: "Climate change may be linked to the spike in US road deaths in 2015, which abruptly reversed the trend of the previous 35 years, concludes a study published online in the journal Injury Prevention."
Key Findings: 'Death rates increase steadily as temperatures rise'
'Death rate was higher in warmer areas'
"The average annual temperature increased 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit from 2014 to 2015 in the areas studied...The death rate was higher in warmer areas and in those with higher rainfall...the correlation of mileage and temperature suggests a classic vicious circle whereby higher temperatures equal more miles driven, leading to more CO2 emissions, which in turn lead to higher temperatures," he explains. "As temperatures continue to increase from heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, road deaths will likely increase more than expected unless there are major mitigating countermeasures," he concludes.
Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com comments on study: "If anything, this 'study' is just more proof that global warming makes researchers brain dead. A weak correlation (r2 = 0.18) based on selected data is evidence of nothing except dishonesty."
Flashback: Feds Ask: Will Global Warming Cause More Deadly Car Crashes?
- Gore Flies Nearly 3,000 Miles to Tell Us to Stop Using Carbon-Based Fuels 1792 Shares
- Eco-conscious DiCaprio won’t take private jet to his fancy gala
- New diesel and petrol cars banned from UK roads by 2040
- Hillary Clinton campaign never bought promised ‘carbon offsets’ to atone for jets
- Does NYT really believe in climate crisis? Then why urge ‘readers to increase emissions by travelling the globe’
Last month this column noted that the actions of the New York Times suggest that the people who put out the newspaper don’t think burning carbon is as dangerous as one would think from reading their product. How else to explain their marketing effort to persuade well-heeled readers to increase emissions by travelling the globe aboard a barely-filled Boeing?
- Tesla car battery production releases as much CO2 as 8 years of gasoline driving
- California orders Volkswagen to build more electric-car charging stations in poor neighborhoods
- Ship of Fools III – Global Warming Study Cancelled Because of ‘Unprecedented’ Ice
