Louisiana's disappearing coastline and wetlands.

[Vandalshandle]

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

Kanton Island also known as Canton, Mary Island and other names. Location 2° 50′ 0″ S, 171° 40′ 0″ W or very near the equator and as such subject to large changes in sea level due to tidal and centripetal forces.
I was there in 1974 and again a year later for six weeks at a time. The highest point on the atoll was maybe 6 feet, likely less. When I look today with google earth or google maps I find it's still there very much as it was back then as are the other low lying Phoenix islands/atolls in the group like Birney and Enderbury.
If there were any significant change in sea level it would show up here first. Case closed, any argument for climate change is just so much bullshit. Any changes in Louisiana are likely due to the corps of engineers fiddling with mother nature. Get them out and all the knuckleheads that are too stupid to get the hell out of nature's way.
Please go have a look for yourself. Just plug the position into google maps and see. Use Satellite view.

Yet another poster who failed 9th grade General Science class...

And yet another post from you that is total bullshit.

I understand why you won't take on people with an I.Q. of 50. They'd kick your ass.

Feelings still hurt, huh? You'll get over it.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

Kanton Island also known as Canton, Mary Island and other names. Location 2° 50′ 0″ S, 171° 40′ 0″ W or very near the equator and as such subject to large changes in sea level due to tidal and centripetal forces.
I was there in 1974 and again a year later for six weeks at a time. The highest point on the atoll was maybe 6 feet, likely less. When I look today with google earth or google maps I find it's still there very much as it was back then as are the other low lying Phoenix islands/atolls in the group like Birney and Enderbury.
If there were any significant change in sea level it would show up here first. Case closed, any argument for climate change is just so much bullshit. Any changes in Louisiana are likely due to the corps of engineers fiddling with mother nature. Get them out and all the knuckleheads that are too stupid to get the hell out of nature's way.
Please go have a look for yourself. Just plug the position into google maps and see. Use Satellite view.

Yet another poster who failed 9th grade General Science class...

Actually I excelled at science and actually worked as a geodetic surveyor which is why I was on that far flung island. In fact was in charge of the project. We were busy creating satellite geodecy, what you call GPS today. How's your science background dumbass?

I learned to swim in New Orleans in 2005.

I learned to swim well before that and learned SCUBA on Canton.

They flooded during a hurricane, too?

 

[martybegan]

You'd have to totally give up trying to control the mississippi to fix the problem.

Louisiana is actually gaining land where the Atchafalaya river discharges into the gulf.

Not surprising since they dont control it like they do the mississippi.

Actually they do, the just control it where it's trying to capture the Mississippi.

Old River Control Structure - Wikipedia

 

[the other mike]

Oh then there's this.

Nine years later, the BP oil spill's environmental mess isn't gone

Gulf Coast ecosystems still have not fully recovered. Some may never recover.

www.motherjones.com

10 Years After BP's Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Threat of Disaster Remains - EcoWatch

Nearly 10 years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe began in the Gulf of Mexico, a leading ocean conservation group warned Tuesday that the threat of another similar disaster looms large and that the fossil fuel industry and U.S. government have learned practically nothing from the...

www.ecowatch.com

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The coastline isn't disappearing, it's just moving.

 

[luchitociencia]

Building contention walls against the path of nature?

What a waste!

It will way more cheaper and wiser moving people to higher land inside and dock the boats in the new shore made by the ocean.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

Every 6 seconds another useless fact is posted on the Internet

 

[whitehall]

How does a state "shed land"? Environmentalists used to scold states for using fill to create more land.

 

[the other mike]

Building contention walls against the path of nature?

What a waste!

It will way more cheaper and wiser moving people to higher land inside and dock the boats in the new shore made by the ocean.

The ground level in New Orleans should have been raised above sea level before they ever started building there, for one thing, but Katrina was a definite wake up call. ( which they haven't ever recovered from fully....about a 1/4 million people left and never went back after that hurricane)

 

[ReinyDays]

The ground level in New Orleans should have been raised above sea level before they ever started building there, for one thing, but Katrina was a definite wake up call. ( which they haven't ever recovered from fully....about a 1/4 million people left and never went back after that hurricane)

New Orleans was above sea level when it was built in the early 18th Century ... the land has sunk that far in 300 years ...

 

[Vandalshandle]

The ground level in New Orleans should have been raised above sea level before they ever started building there, for one thing, but Katrina was a definite wake up call. ( which they haven't ever recovered from fully....about a 1/4 million people left and never went back after that hurricane)

New Orleans was above sea level when it was built in the early 18th Century ... the land has sunk that far in 300 years ...

Wrong, Days. New Orleans was originally built on land that was above sea level (the French Quarter), and it still is. Then they expanded the metro areaa by draining swamps around the French Quarter which are below the level of Lake Ponchartrain. Vey little Of the Metro area is below sea level...yet.

 

[the other mike]

The ground level in New Orleans should have been raised above sea level before they ever started building there, for one thing, but Katrina was a definite wake up call. ( which they haven't ever recovered from fully....about a 1/4 million people left and never went back after that hurricane)

New Orleans was above sea level when it was built in the early 18th Century ... the land has sunk that far in 300 years ...

Wrong, Days. New Orleans was originally built on land that was above sea level (the French Quarter), and it still is. Then they expanded the metro areaa by draining swamps around the French Quarter which are below the level of Lake Ponchartrain. Vey little Of the Metro area is below sea level...yet.

Back around '85 when I was with AT&T in the SE region, we were installing some regenerators on the long distance land lines ( way before anyone saw the cell phone boom coming )from Jackson Ms to Slidel La, and it was during 2 almost back to back hurricanes - Elena and then Frederick - it was flooded in some areas for several weeks.

We had a bunch of down time for awhile.....but when there was nothing to do, my supervisor had us waxing the trucks or something.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You'd have to totally give up trying to control the mississippi to fix the problem.

Louisiana is actually gaining land where the Atchafalaya river discharges into the gulf.

Not surprising since they dont control it like they do the mississippi.

Actually they do, the just control it where it's trying to capture the Mississippi.

Old River Control Structure - Wikipedia

I was inferring that they dont control it to the extent they do the mississippi.

 

[Fang]

Interesting read on a quarantine Saturday.

How Humans Sank New Orleans

Natural Levees: Depositional Landforms

 

[martybegan]

You'd have to totally give up trying to control the mississippi to fix the problem.

Louisiana is actually gaining land where the Atchafalaya river discharges into the gulf.

Not surprising since they dont control it like they do the mississippi.

Actually they do, the just control it where it's trying to capture the Mississippi.

Old River Control Structure - Wikipedia

I was inferring that they dont control it to the extent they do the mississippi.

Agreed. The Atchafalaya discharge is allowed to spread out and drop off the sediments at the mouth of the river, while the Mississippi Main branch is channeled so most of the sediment shoots over the continental shelf.

As an Engineer I find the Army Corp of Engineer's attempt to control the Mississippi fascinating.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

You'd have to totally give up trying to control the mississippi to fix the problem.

Louisiana is actually gaining land where the Atchafalaya river discharges into the gulf.

Not surprising since they dont control it like they do the mississippi.

Actually they do, the just control it where it's trying to capture the Mississippi.

Old River Control Structure - Wikipedia

I was inferring that they dont control it to the extent they do the mississippi.

Agreed. The Atchafalaya discharge is allowed to spread out and drop off the sediments at the mouth of the river, while the Mississippi Main branch is channeled so most of the sediment shoots over the continental shelf.

As an Engineer I find the Army Corp of Engineer's attempt to control the Mississippi fascinating.

Yep.
That and hurricanes are the main reason for the loss of wetlands on the Louisiana coast.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Oh then there's this.

Nine years later, the BP oil spill's environmental mess isn't gone

Gulf Coast ecosystems still have not fully recovered. Some may never recover.

www.motherjones.com

10 Years After BP's Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Threat of Disaster Remains - EcoWatch

Nearly 10 years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe began in the Gulf of Mexico, a leading ocean conservation group warned Tuesday that the threat of another similar disaster looms large and that the fossil fuel industry and U.S. government have learned practically nothing from the...

www.ecowatch.com

Do you live on the Gulf Coast?

 

[the other mike]

Do you live on the Gulf Coast?

No. The nearest coast from here is Houston, about
300 miles south. The only coast I ever lived on was
Hilton Head Island , SC, from about 82 to 84.

 

[Coyote]

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

I think many coastal areas are going to have to adapt and change their ways building and habitation. I do not we can reverse all this. The Netherlands are way ahead of the US in addressing this.

 

[Coyote]

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field’s worth of land.

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

www.newyorker.com

Seems like a hopeless situation, but sometimes that's what it takes
to wake people up.

It's not due to seal level rise, it's due to subsidence because the Mississippi river isn't allowed to flood naturally anymore during the high flow spring season.

It is due to both factors. Louisiana is Leading the Way in Real-time Sea Level Rise Monitoring