Small Cabin

The AEI report notes that “the IPCC does not associate climate change with existential, apocalyptic, or catastrophic outcomes.” Yet 77% of respondents answered “Yes” to the question “Does the IPCC think there is a tipping point beyond which temperature rise from the current day will produce catastrophic results for human civilization?”

“ When civil engineer Ed Stutt inspected homes destroyed during Hurricane Marilyn in 1995, he discovered that wood failure was not the main reason buildings were destroyed by wind. He say entire roofs lifted off, shingles and all, opening the houses to much more damage than if the roofs had stayed on. More often than not, nails with inadequate holding power was to blame, especially on roofs. Nails either pull out of the roof frame, or the roof sheathing itself pulls off over the nail heads. The solution is to use ring-shank, full-round nails for securing roof sheathing, driven about twice as often as usual. Every 4 inches on edges and every 6 to 8 inches within each sheet of sheathing is not too much when winds pickup big time. ”