City of Clio recently issued the following announcement.
IT'S HARD TO TEASE OUT THE ROLE of climate change in any single weather event, long-term monitoring has shown that intense rainstorms like the ones that bore down on Southeast Michigan this year (and mid-Michigan last year, and the Upper Peninsula in 2018, and mid-Michigan in 2017, and metro Detroit in 2014) are growing more common. And are expected to worsen.
And yet our infrastructure and the policy that guides it — from the pipes that whisk water away, to the standards that dictate where and how we build homes — are calibrated to patterns of the past.
“Whether it's a house, a sewage system, a dam, your farm: They're all designed for a climate that doesn't exist anymore,” said Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist at the University of Michigan.
“We're getting a really painful look at the reality that we've been moving toward for a long time," said Beth Gibbons, executive director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals in Ypsilanti, which helps professionals prepare for climate change,
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