Wait a minute. Am I missing something? Fire can't melt steel, according to Rosie Dumbass, but 90 degree weather can? Geez, these people really are dumb.

No doubt they built the bridge with special cold-weather steel. I'll be glad to sell the Minnesota government a special insulating paint that keeps the heat out and will protect the rest of their bridges. Only $50 a gallon, and the Home Depot label is just camouflage to keep my neighbors from stealing it.

 Soo what if there was TONS OF additional paving materal, overloading the bridge. Run for your lives it's planet fever.

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

So some moron tree hugging left wing wacko reports on some kookball demolib state legislature babbling SPECULATION, and the discussion is over.

 "So and such pure driven goodness angelic demolib speculated about global warming bridge collapse, and now I'll speculate, being the idiot moron reporter with no facts other than speculative demo rhetoric I completely and wholeheartedly agree with considering my mainstream knowledge and belief system, unencumbered by hard right lunatic fringe rantings from the base of the entire republican party demon guild of earthly armageddonic destruction desired from a faux foxnews-like christianty..."

 Ok, so I embellished a bit, but I quite understand the kookball moron lib "unbiased" reporter wanted to say it.

 BTW with 7 billion dollars going toward investigating global warming catastrophic affects on the USA and the world scooped out of the NASA budget and who knows where and what else, the big fat lie about Bush banning (blocked) the research was a nice touch. Gasbag kookball fudgemonkey CRAP.

 When a freak demolib (all of them ) opens their piehole lie after lie spews forth, I can't even fathom counting them anymore. They should just shut up, I am so sick of their baseless, factless, hairbrained speculations and outright lies they base on their senseless and incorrect partisan jackass opinion they pull straight out of their doped up skulls.

My favorite part is this:

The Bush administration has blocked research into the impact of climate change on this country and muzzled climate scientists from discussing key climate impact issues,

Yes, I know, these people are just ridiculed all the time and told to shut up. They are like those people you see on TV day in and day out, and read everywhere, constantly complaining that they are being silenced.

The only thing missing from the article is a recap of the remedies the Clinton administration had in place, which would have saved the bridge, but were cut by Bush.

HAving lived in that part of the country for several years in the '70s, I can tell you that 90-degrees in the summer is far from unusual!  IMHO the most likely culprits are the fatigue caused by EXTEAM COLD durint the winter, when steel gets brittle and more likely to stress crack.  Combine this with the overuse of ROAD SALT and you have a corrosion control nightmare. 

 Does anyone remember the highway bridge in CT that collapsed back in the '80s because the support pins had rusted out due to salt corrosion?  I think this is more of the same, but the BDS moonbats just can't let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory!

THERE AIN"T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!

MslMan742

They way they talk about 90 degree weather in Minnesota as though it's something freakish, you'd think the city was located in Antarctica.  Recent summers may have been warmer than average, but hardly unusual.  I am a native of Minneapolis and live only about 120 miles away just over the state line in Iowa.  If the weather in Minneapolis was that stinkin' extreme, it would have been major news around here.  Global warming fanatics, move on.  There's nothing here for you.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Noel, in the interests of accuracy, it's I-35W, not I-35.  If you travel north to the Twin Cities on I-35, the highway splits into 35W and 35E on the south side of the Metro and comes together again on the north side.

I actually enjoy seeing articles like this. Even though there are plenty of people who will follow anything said to advance the alarmist view, there are also plenty of people with half a brain or more who are still deciding what they think. Articles like this expose the ignorance and arrogance of the alarmist movement. I say keep them coming and eventually they will be preaching to a very small and shrinking choir.

Several years back the I35 Bridge over the Missouri River in KC (aka Paseo Bridge) had a section that dropped several feet causing the closing of this major thoroughfare.  It was determined that the cause of the failure was corrosion caused by years of pigeon droppings from nesting birds (http://www.bizjourna...).  By the libs (ill) logic perhaps we need to exterminate all pigeons so this will never happen again.

Romm:  Hmm. Stick to what you know.

Good advice, Joe.  Take it.  You're not an engineer, and you even cite a Brit engineer as saying that high temperature is not likely the cause for the collapse of the bridge -- he stuck to what HE knows; you disregarded it.

Romm: Greenland didn’t used to be green. Sorry, that’s just a myth.

Tell that to the descendents of the Norse settlers of Greenland, who managed to farm there for over 400 hundred years.  They raised cattle and sheep on Greenland -- livestock that requires a lot of grass to consume.  But little could the Norse know that they arrived in Greenland just as the Little Ice Age was encroaching from the north, ultimately dooming their two major settlements.  The cooling climate shortened the growing season for crops and grasses.  (For more info on the Norse in Greenland, read COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond, who by the way happens to be a GW advocate).

Romm:  To believe that 6 billion people have no impact on the global climate — when all the scientific evidence says otherwise — is myopia of the highest order.

The skeptics don't dismiss the possibility of 6 billion people impacting climate; they dismiss the certainty declared by the GWers that people are the principal cause of climate change. If you want an example of myopia, you need look no further than your assumption that the Minneapolis bridge collapsed because of global warming, dismissing more logical possibilities such as materiel fatigue, structural errors, poor maintenance, and even the added weight of some 10 tons of construction materials staged on the bridge for repairs.  Your own myopia leads you to dismiss the judgment of an engineer and rely on your own reach the conclusion that you want.  There's nothing scientific about your reasoning, Joe.   

I can't believe the absurdity espoused by these chuckleheads...

... going on here is the lining of somebody's pockets that came into contact with whatever $$$ were "ear-marked" for the bridge's repairs.

What could those Bridge Designers be thinking not to account for a +0.24C increase in temperature over 40 years?

These collapses were obviously the result of Global Cooling:

The Koror-Babeldaob Bridge - September 1996

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge - November 1940

The Tay Bridge - December 1879

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

When that warm wind and moist air blew up under Clinton's desk in the Oval Office, he knew it was global warming. Now if only Hillary had believed him.

http://www.startribu...

A decade ago ... As I wrote previously;