Prepare for a climate-changed world, say engineers

[n2doc]

21 February 2009
Magazine issue 2696.

IT'S time to get practical over climate change.

A report by the UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers will next month call for governments to accept that climate change is now inevitable. Strategies must be put in place now to protect our infrastructure from its worst effects, alongside existing efforts to reduce emissions, it will argue.

Recommendations include more underground reservoirs to combat increased evaporation during drought, and a subterranean water-distribution system. Electricity should be produced from a mix of renewable sources. To reduce the urban heat-island effect - whereby concrete jungles overheat, necessitating energy-hungry air-conditioning - new cities should be designed to ensure heat is dispersed away from buildings.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126965.200-prepare-for-a-climatechanged-world-say-engineers.html

[applegrove]

1. Thank god * is no longer in power and denying it all the time. Thank gosh.

[bananas]

2. Interesting news report

They have a number of tv and radio news reports there,
I watched this one: http://www.imeche.tv/player.asp?v=106
The others are at http://www.imeche.tv/

[kestrel91316]

3. "Underground reservoirs", eh? Maybe we could refill those giant

aquifers we have been busily depleting for decades...........

[tom_paine]

4. ROFL. Besides, all water will be privatized by 2050, maybe sooner.

I hope not, but probably...