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Climate Change Increasing Infrastructure Maintenance Cost In Alaska

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

30 June 2007 - 7:00am

A study calculates the growing cost of maintaining Alaska's infrastructure as a result of global warming.

"Higher temperatures, melting permafrost, a reduction in polar ice and increased flooding are expected to raise the repair and replacement cost of thousands of infrastructure projects as much as $6.1 billion for a total of nearly $40 billion — about a 20 percent increase — from now to 2030, according to the study, by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage."

Full Story: Study Sees Climate Change Impact on Alaska
Source: The New York Times, June 28, 2007
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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