Friday Top of the Scroll: ‘Expect more’: Climate change raises risk of dam failures
No one can say yet whether the intense rainfall that preceded this disaster [in central Michigan] was made worse by climate change. But global warming is already causing some regions to become wetter, and increasing the frequency of extreme storms, according to the latest National Climate Assessment. … That puts more of the nation’s 91,500 dams at risk of failing, engineers and dam safety experts said.
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