When will UNEP convene an emergency meeting to explain Climate Desk's shocking failure to adapt so valuable a crisis to purposes of publicity, and how it will impact the state of climate communication and the future of existential threat inflation as we know it?
The 948 foot long 157 foot wide vessel displaced ten times more that the roughly 5,000 tonne steel truss bridge it struck only a few tens of boat lengths after pushing off from its container ship port dock, raising questions as to how she came to accelerate so significantly ( reportedly 8.8 knots) and irreversibly in the confines of the inner harbor.
A coast guard and admiralty law replay of the aftermath of the grounding of the QEII in Vineyard sound is only to be expected, and the most salient question may once more be :
Where was the harbor pilot and what orders did he give?
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Hope has dawned at Watts Up With That for a Willlis Eschenbach article linking the ship collision to bad thermometer siting and Baltimore's notorious urban heat island effect , pegged on the latest news from the NYTimes:
Covering logistics and infrastructure
An inspection of the Dali last year at a port in Chile reported that the vessel had a deficiency related to “propulsion and auxiliary machinery.” The inspection, conducted on June 27 at the port of San Antonio, specified that the deficiency concerned gauges and thermometers.
Climate change can also be invoked in the that the hasty departure that contributed to Dali's accident reflected her being behind schedule because drought slowed lock-filling and so delayed her Panama Canal passage earlier in March.
