Lousiana hit by rising sea levels

[Crick]

Frank, don't get upset that others recognize your shortcomings.

As has been pointed out to your before, tons of evidence may be found at IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Your "Evidence" is simply pointing at the Weather Channel and claiming it's all due to Imaginary AGW.

That's a pretty stupid comment to make (even for you) after having JUST pointed to the IPCC for evidence.

Moreover IPCC is on record disavowing AGW as science and acknowledged its a ruse to redistribute wealth

And that is complete nonsense.

"But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore..." - See more at: UN IPCC Official Admits We Redistribute World s Wealth By Climate Policy

This quote is from Ottmar Edenhoffer, a German economist who was co-chair of Working Group III for the Fourth Assessment Report. It was an expression of his personal opinion. It was not a statement of the IPCC any more than our posts here are the official statements of our employers. Additionally, even as his personal opinion, it is not a disavowal of climate science nor an admission that any ruse is underway to redistribute wealth. It is the viewpoint of an economist regarding what is needed to reduce humanity's carbon footprint. If you never thought that would involve economic issues, I have to wonder where you thought all that money you've complained about spending was going to go.

You clearly don't understand the difference between observation and evidence

I have no idea how this comment applies to your statements above or what you might be attempting to convey here.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Frank, don't get upset that others recognize your shortcomings.

As has been pointed out to your before, tons of evidence may be found at IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Your "Evidence" is simply pointing at the Weather Channel and claiming it's all due to Imaginary AGW.

That's a pretty stupid comment to make (even for you) after having JUST pointed to the IPCC for evidence.

Moreover IPCC is on record disavowing AGW as science and acknowledged its a ruse to redistribute wealth

And that is complete nonsense.

"But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore..." - See more at: UN IPCC Official Admits We Redistribute World s Wealth By Climate Policy

This quote is from Ottmar Edenhoffer, a German economist who was co-chair of Working Group III for the Fourth Assessment Report. It was an expression of his personal opinion. It was not a statement of the IPCC any more than our posts here are the official statements of our employers. Additionally, even as his personal opinion, it is not a disavowal of climate science nor an admission that any ruse is underway to redistribute wealth. It is the viewpoint of an economist regarding what is needed to reduce humanity's carbon footprint. If you never thought that would involve economic issues, I have to wonder where you thought all that money you've complained about spending was going to go.

You clearly don't understand the difference between observation and evidence

I have no idea how this comment applies to your statements above or what you might be attempting to convey here.

Edenhoffer wasn't the only one to make that comment.. but he was the lead in that working group. You really are a fascist desiring control. you dis avow anything that exposes you and your ilk... sickening, it really is.

 

[Crick]

You might want to reread my post with your thinking cap on this time. I didn't disavow Edenhofer. I simply stated that it was not the official position of the IPCC. You'd have to be an idiot to think it was.

 

[skookerasbil]

LOL........."the official position of the IPCC".......

Like accepting the official position of Pravda!!!



The level of gullible/naïve on this particular forum is profound!! Fascinating shit......and most amazing is almost invariably on here, the handful of committed AGW ocd's are no kids.

 

[Crick]

Even putting out the thousands of pages they do, the IPCC has published orders of magnitude less mistakes and many order of magnitude less lies than have you, Skooks. You're not qualified to take out their trash.

 

[waltky]

Rising Waters Prompt Marshallese To Ask US For Sanctuary...

Bikini Islanders in desperate plea to USA as island home disappears due to climate change
October 27, 2015 - BIKINI Islanders are petitioning the US government to let them live in the United States permanently as they say their new home since the 1940s is unlivable due to climate change.

About 1,000 of the Island's population want to move to the United States. Washington moved the entire population of the Bikini Atoll in 1946 so they could use the island to test nuclear weapons. They carried out 23 Nuclear tests on the small Pacific island. But now the Bikinian people say they want to leave the island they were relocated to and settle in America. An increase in the number of king tides, high tides that occur during storms, mean the islanders way of life has become threatened. Flooding to the Marshall Islands in 2011 and 2014 caused huge amounts of damage. Agriculture is also threatened by salt in the soil on Kili Island.

Extreme weather has been becoming more frequent​

Residents asked the Foreign Minister for the island chain to request the US use the resettlement trust fund to settle them in America. Tony de Brum, the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister said: "The people of Bikini came back to us and asked us to take this proposal to the US, to request the resettlement trust fund be used to settle people in the US. "We have not seen the final text of the legislation but the request that went in was on the basis of Kili being uninhabitable because of climate change." The resettlement trust fund was set up by the US government to pay for the contraction of new homes within the Marshall Islands.

Climate change is blamed for worsening conditions in the Pacific​

The Islanders' resettlement bid received a boost when the US Department of the Interior came out in support of it. They will now propose legislation in the US Congress to amend the resettlement trust fund. Esther Kia'aina, Assisstant Secretary of the Interior said: "This is an appropriate course of action for the United States to take regarding the welfare and livelihood of the Bikinian people, given the deteriorating conditions on Kili and Ejit Islands in the Marshall Islands - with crowding, diminishing resources, and increased frequency of flooding due to King Tides on their islands."

Bikini Islanders in desperate plea to USA as island home disappears due to climate change

 

[waltky]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

Source

 

[SSDD]

Sinking land is what is threatening Louisiana....climate scammers and their willing accomplices in the media gladly portray the problem as one of increasing sea level but alas, like most climate bullshit, this is just one more example of disinormation put out to fool the uneducated.

Here is the result of a study by Tulane University, mapping out the land that is sinking along the gulf coast and the rate at which it is sinking. Sea level isn't threatening anything...sinking land, on the other hand is the very problem they have been facing in Venice for centuries...

 

[miketx]

And what to liberals do? Build a city there that is known to be below sea level.

 

[SSDD]

And what to liberals do? Build a city there that is known to be below sea level.

And then waste billions upon billions upon billions for centuries trying to hold back the ocean...as if that were actually possible....then they cry and ask for more billions when it turns out that you can't, in fact, hold back the ocean.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Louisiana is losing the Delta due to the flood control efforts on the Mississippi.

 

[fncceo]

A fascinating article and video by the BBC on the impact of rising sea levels and irrigation on the US coastline...

Life on a Louisiana island slowly disappearing into the sea

The US state of Louisiana is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico as its fragile wetlands are eroded by rising sea levels.

Approximately 75 square kilometres are lost each year and the US Geological Survey has warned that the entire habitat - which represents 40% of all wetlands in the US - could be destroyed within 200 years.

The loss is partly down to natural evolutionary processes, but experts say human behaviour - including dredging for canals and the draining of the wetlands for development and agriculture - has made the region more vulnerable to storm surges.

BBC News - Life on a Louisiana island slowly disappearing into the sea

Apparently, G-d does move in mysterious ways. Couldn't happen to a nicer state.

 

[westwall]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

Source

The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can no longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

 

[martybegan]

Louisiana is losing the Delta due to the flood control efforts on the Mississippi.

By the outfall of the Achafalaya there is actually a new delta forming, however since most of the flow still goes down the old channel most of the sediment is lost to the deeper waters.

 

[martybegan]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

Source

The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

One of my favorite books of all time. One day I want to see Old River Control in person, preferably during high water.

 

[Old Rocks]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

Source

The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can no longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

What a liar you are, Mr. Westwall. Here is what real scientists have to say about that.

Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average
March 14, 2017

Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana's wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes.

Read more at: Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

Source

The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can no longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

What a liar you are, Mr. Westwall. Here is what real scientists have to say about that.

Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average
March 14, 2017

Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana's wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes.

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The reason the Delta is hanging on is because it gets most of the silt from the Mississippi.
With all the flood control,less silt is coming down the Miss which of course means less silt that can be dispersed to the west or east.
As far as that pic of the trees goes they admit they they didnt know what killed them.

 

[westwall]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

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The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can no longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

What a liar you are, Mr. Westwall. Here is what real scientists have to say about that.

Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average
March 14, 2017

Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana's wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes.

Read more at: Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average

Yeah. Sure. Read McPhee's book (from waaaay back in 1989) and educate yourself. It is a long running, well known problem that lazy "scientists" have glommed onto to baffle morons like you.

 

[Crick]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

 

[Uncensored2008]

...and some species are turning female too!!

13.) The marine food chain could fall apart.

14.) Within 300 years, 88% of New Orleans could be underwater.

15.) Increasing droughts will make the driest regions even drier.

Well Manhattan is already completely under water, just as the Church prophesied that it would be, and the Himalaya's are completely ice and snow free.