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Mr. William Wallace, F.ASCE


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Posted By William Wallace 04-25-2024 11:49 PM
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According to a 2023 study by HGA (a design firm) and the University of Minnesota (see https://hga.com/climate-forward/), most A&E firms are not taking future sea level rise, or for that matter, the other aspects of climate change adaptation into account in their projects. Few firms are using climate ...
Posted By William Wallace 11-08-2017 10:09 AM
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Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but it appears from this discussion thread that we're looking at Hurricane Harvey as an extreme event, which, if we looked hard enough, could have been predicted. I don't think that's a worthwhile exercise. For centuries, engineers have based their designs on an obscure but ...
Posted By William Wallace 06-26-2017 12:44 PM
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Another source of raw data is the Berkeley Earth Project, Home - Berkeley Earth Interesting story. Here's an excerpt from their website. "Berkeley Earth was conceived by Richard and Elizabeth Muller in early 2010 when they found merit in some of the concerns of skeptics. They organized a group of ...
Posted By William Wallace 06-21-2017 09:35 AM
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I don't rule out healthy discussion and skepticism, but the operative word here is "healthy". What I've observed over the past year or so in this forum is that healthy discussions about climate change being trolled by some who seemed to be on a mission to cast doubt on the conclusions of the very scientific ...
Posted By William Wallace 06-20-2017 09:50 AM
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Thank you again, Dov. What is most puzzling to me in this and similar discussions in this group is the predisposition of some members to dispute the work of the very scientific institutions that we in the U.S. and other developed nations have set up to study and advise decision-makers on important matters ...