Topic #6: Evaluating Sources

Within the next few decades, there will occur many dramatic changes on our planet. One of those being the increasing temperature due to global warming. This is having more of an effect than just more people getting sun burn. It is actually hindering peoples lifestyles.

A article, by Alex Hamer and Caroline Peters, describes how the effects of global warming could really affect civil engineering projects in the future. They make claims that these new climate changes  could extend the life a civil engineers project due to increase risk of harm from the elements, such as hurricanes, floods, volcanic eruptions, and much more. These could put these engineers and other people in harms way. So civil engineers need to protected for things like these to occur in the future (Hamer and Peters). These two believe that these civil engineers could be at risk and they want to do anything they can to help them. 

Previously, I have read that civil engineers are trying to do a lot in the future to try to be more environmentally conscious and make the world a greener place. This is a great thing for everyone to be doing, but if these men and women are going to be working when it is over 90 degrees out they are  at risk of being hurt. No one wants this to happen to anyone. 

These authors are correct, things in the future will change. This is why civil engineers, and everyone, need to be prepared now for what could come in the future, because they are usually the ones that find out at last moment. It is better to be safe than sorry.  

By Ethan Gaskey

Source: Hamer, Alex and Peters, Caroline: A Changing Climate for Civil Engineering Claims.