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We're Building Things Based on a Climate We No Longer Live In
28 Jun 2023 | Abstracted from Scientific American
"NOAA precipitation estimates that engineers and planners use to design bridges, roads and other infrastructure are decades out of date because of climate change
"...precipitation records that go back to 1816, which the new report says makes them obsolete and inaccurate because they incorporate 200-year-old data and do not account for the current and future effects of climate change."
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