© NYTThe Modern West is regressing to 8th Century occult scienceBe afraid:"...now, extreme heat and increased flooding linked to climate change are accelerating the disintegration of the nation's bridges, engineers say, essentially causing them to age prematurely. The Professor was paid to find a crisis"We have a bridge crisis that is specifically tied to extreme weather events," said Paul Chinowsky, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder who researches the effects of climate change on infrastructure. "These are not things that would happen under normal climate circumstances. These are not things that we've ever seen at this rate."