No, Bloomberg, Climate is Not “Killing Buildings”

[rangerrebew]

No, Bloomberg, Climate is Not “Killing Buildings”
Anthony Watts
By
Anthony Watts
October 23, 2024
 

An October 21 article in Bloomberg claims that Climate Change is Killing Buildings in Slow Motion. This is demonstrably false, as buildings have been affected by weather for millennia, not just during the present. This is a classic case of conflation of weather and climate, used to push the idea that a “climate crisis” is a clear and present danger, when, in fact, there is no such thing as a climate crisis occurring, except in the imaginations climate alarmists and the mainstream media that seemingly blindly accepts and publicizes their every pronouncement.

First, it should be noted that science says climate and weather are not the same things. Weather is what we (and buildings) experience on a day-to-day basis. Climate is a mathematical average of weather parameters such as temperature and rainfall over a 30-year period. Climate does not act as a tangible atmospheric phenomenon that can deteriorate buildings – weather does.

Weather has been deteriorating buildings since mankind has been building them. Only recently has the focus switched from blaming weather for deteriorating infrastructure and falsely blaming climate instead.

https://climaterealism.com/2024/10/no-bloomberg-climate-is-not-killing-buildings/

[The_Reader_David]

The trouble is, while weather is not climate, climate is weather averaged over time and place.  It's like the 4 runs from a bases loaded homer or the 0 runs from a struck out time at bat are not RBI, but RBI is an average of such events.

If the climate changes in such a way that there is more flooding, or bigger temperature swings, or more sandstorms (as examples) in some particular place place buildings will deteriorate faster, and since it is an aggregate effect of weather changes in that place, one can blame it on the change in the local climate.