Re:Underground Heat Is Shifting Chicago’s Foundations
by pengaru on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:02PM
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I'm just thinking the journalism sucked to not even mention any of these obviously confounding factors.
Chicago's foundations are inherently unstable. IMO it makes being scientific about blaming "underground climate change" substantially more difficult. The journalist is out to lunch after strictly reporting on what these specific folks are saying and measuring.
If I didn't live and work there for years in the distant past, having spent many a nights drinking in bars below grade because of its history, I wouldn't know the amount of speculation the "science" reported in TFA really calls for.
Chicago's foundations are inherently unstable. IMO it makes being scientific about blaming "underground climate change" substantially more difficult. The journalist is out to lunch after strictly reporting on what these specific folks are saying and measuring.
If I didn't live and work there for years in the distant past, having spent many a nights drinking in bars below grade because of its history, I wouldn't know the amount of speculation the "science" reported in TFA really calls for.