Posted on 07/22/2018 12:34:37 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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It has occurred to me that science and technology is advancing quickly enough that we may at some point be able to actually cleanse the atmosphere of CO2. In a project that massive, if we get it wrong and the proper balance is passed and much a reaction is set in place that removes all CO2 then bye-bye plant life and humans will be reduced to dinner recipes that range from stones to dirt.
Flood control measures doomed southern Louisiana. The lower parishes are built of sediment which continues to compact, without the benefit of periodic flooding allowing deposit of another silt layer on the surface.
Imaginary global warming means you'd better not support the GOP because Trump is appointing Brent Kavanaugh. No, really, that's what the idiot demagogue has written.
If Katrina’s eye had been 50 miles west of where it went ashore, there wouldn’t be any discussion about Nola. There probably wouldn’t be one. Odd that little mention is made of Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi after that storm or Camille back in 69.
Seeing a crash.
Can type with a keyboard but hopeless with touchscreens.
Think of Chicago, that’s what the country would look like with rules and laws. People get shot allthe the time for no real reason.
Wow! I live just NORTH of I-10. This means I’ll soon be owning ocean front property. I can stop wasting money on my IRA, and still retire a millionaire.
I am speculating that much of the rise in sea levels is due to sediment flowing into the ocean from rivers and streams. Any truth to this hypothesis?
I am thinking my sediment hypothesis has some validity. Here is a description of the Mississippi Delta situation that is relevant to the to Louisiana:
“The 300 kilometer-wide Mississippi River delta plain and its associated wetlands and barrier shorelines are the product of the continuous accumulation of sediments deposited by the river and its distributaries during the past 7,000 years. Regular shifts in the river’s course have resulted in four ancestral and two active delta lobes, which accumulated as overlapping, stacked sequences of unconsolidated sands and muds. As each delta lobe was abandoned by the river, its main source of sediment, the deltas experienced erosion and degradation due to compaction of loose sediment, Marine coastal processes eroded and reworked the seaward margins of the deltas forming sandy headlands and barrier beaches. As erosion and degradation continued, segmented low-relief barrier islands formed and eventually were separated from the mainland by shallow bays and lagoons.” — Louisiana Coastal Wetlands: A Resource At Risk
if you are stupid enough to build/buy a house on low lying land which the indians and early settlers were smart enough to avoid ...
then you deserve your high flood insurance rates and eventual need for that insurance
The land is sinking - nothing to do with ‘global warming’... If it was ‘global warming’ the Tampa Bay area would have the same problem...
You could be right. a lot of reported sea rise is not general but local and not due to “warming” “filling the seas” but due to a sum of natural and manmade conditions as to water flows, beaches, wetlands and the like.
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