Ex-Clinton Official: Did Global Warming Contribute To MN Bridge Collapse?

Published: August 7, 2007, 12:12 am

Tags: environment, global warming, weather, bill clinton, john podesta, joseph romm, center for american progress

A former member of the Clinton administration, and current Senior Fellow at the virtual Clinton think tank the Center for American Progress, claimed Monday that global warming might have played a factor in the collapse of the I35 bridge in Minnesota last week.I kid you not. Writing at Climate Progress, the global warming blog of CAP, Joseph Romm - who served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy in 1997 and as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 1995 though 1998 - stated in a piece amazingly entitled "Did Climate Change Contribute To The Minneapolis Bridge Collapse?" (emphasis added throughout): I was skeptical at first, but after doing a Google search - and after NBC reported Sunday that National Transportation Safety Board investigators are "looking at everything" including "the weather" - I think it is a legitimate question to ask. Keep your seatbelts fastened, for it got better: Melissa Hortman of the Minnesota

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