Could you provide a link to the ENR article. I would like to see the documentation.
Regards,
Mark Johnson PE
--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Stan Caldwell <stancaldwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Stan Caldwell <stancaldwell@gmail.com>
> Subject: Climate Change - Part 1 of 2
> To: "SEAINT Listserv" <seaint@seaint.org>
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 6:12 PM
> Note: I sent this post a few
> hours ago and it never made it. Either (1) it was too
> long, or (2) the bureaucrats censored it. Guessing that
> the first problem prevailed, I am reposting in two parts.
> Here is Part 1:
>
>
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>
> Fellow List Subscribers:
>
> Yesterday, I posted a link to a very interesting and
> disturbing newpaper article which provides an update on the
> structural collapse of the roof of the Dallas Cowboys
> practice facility. For a while, this generated a number of
> thoughtful on-topic responses. However, as happens too
> often on this List, the thread was eventually hi-jacked
> (thanks, Ralph) and wandered off into politics, Sweden, and
> eventually, global warming.
>
>
> Since we are now entering the "dog days" of
> summer, it seems that off-topic subjects are once again of
> more interest than structural engineering subjects (perhaps
> this is true year 'round). One of my favorite subjects
> is climate change. First, let me state my bias: If the
> cap & trade bill that was approved by the House last
> Friday is approved by the Senate later this year, our
> grandchildren will live their lives in a third-world nation
> (the USA in 2040). Even worse, we will have blindly gone
> down this path for no apparent reason, because we will not
> have significantly affected the climate.
>
>
> As some of you know, I served on the ASCE Board of
> Direction and Executive Committee through early last
> November. Since then, to my great dismay, ASCE has jumped
> on Al Gore's bandwagon and is embracing and espousing
> the global warming doctrine. ASCE presidents write a
> weekly blog. In the past three years, the average blog has
> resulted in less than 1.0 responses. Current ASCE
> President Wayne Klotz wrote blogs on climate change on June
> 8 and 22. They have generated an astounding 65 and 19
> responses so far, respectively, from concerned members.
> About 76% of the responses have been negative. Some are
> very negative, including one geotech that is so upset that
> he has included a link to his own blog entry "Makes Me
> Want To Vomit". You can read all of this here:
>
>
> http://blogs.asce.org/president2009/
>
> Upset with ASCE's social activism, and anticipating
> action by the current Congress, I wrote a climate change
> article for various publications in May. It is both brief
> and factual. I am a structural engineer, not a climate
> scientist, but I can document each and every assertion in
> the article. In fact, I did so earler this month for ENR.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stan R. Caldwell, SECB, F.ASCE
> HALFF Associates, inc.
> Richardson, Texas
>
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>
> To be continued, in Part 2!
>
>
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