I imagine analysts have identified that building an economy that is dependent on a resource like oil or gas comes with drawbacks and that the oil and gas lobby has access to the worlds militaries which may be used to mitigate those drawbacks.

“This is an act of God, please send sweet FEMA dollars.”

That points to a fix that’s more about policy than materials science: building standards that account for local climate, rather than applying identical rules everywhere.

They’re claiming that corrosion reactions react at different rates depending on the local climate, so local building code should reflect that. Sounds like basic chemistry.

There is already precedent in many regional building codes for things like seismic activity, flooding, and tornadoes. Lfg

Stories like this are dazzle meant to distract from human caused greenhouse gas emissions. Why was this published one week after thousands were killed by flooding in Nepal?

Its obv that ppl are destroying the Everest ecosystem, but claiming their urine melts the glacier a few days after such a devastating event? Shame on them.