Transportation experts issue warming warning

MSNBC
March 11, 2008

WASHINGTON – Expect flooded roads and runways, twisted railroad tracks and weakened bridges brought on by rising sea levels and more intense storms tied to global warming, leading U.S. experts warned in a report released Tuesday.

Climate change will affect every type of transportation, the experts convened by the National Research Council said.

“The time has come for transportation professionals to acknowledge and confront the challenges posed by climate change and to incorporate the most current scientific knowledge into the planning of transportation systems,” committee chairman Henry Schwartz Jr. said in a statement.

“Rising temperatures may trigger weather extremes and surprises, such as more rapid melting of the Arctic sea ice than projected,” added Schwartz, past president and chairman of the engineering firm Sverdrup/Jacobs Civil Inc. “The highways that currently serve as evacuation routes and endure periodic flooding could be compromised with strong hurricanes and more intense precipitation, making some of these routes impassable.”

The committee called for “a more strategic, risk-based approach to investment decisions that trades off the costs of making the infrastructure more robust against the economic costs of failure.”

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