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re: Louisiana island that’s is home to first "climate change" refugees
Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:39 am to buckeye_vol
Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:39 am to buckeye_vol
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Are there really communities like that though, so close to civilization yet so strangely far from it?
It's a tiny community that nobody goes to unless they are launching a boat. 90% of the people who live/lived there are fisherman.
It's separated by a road that's a mile or two long, but it's not really that far from anything
The residents pretty much stay to themselves
There was a Hatfield- McCoy shootout there one time
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Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:49 am to JOJO Hammer
Yes, the 0.0001" of sea level rise is the cause for disappearing islands in Louisiana. Just disregard the fact that everything else is sinking, eroding, and dying. It is global warming
Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:54 am to buckeye_vol
There used to be, but they were largely abandoned post Katrina. The last few hangers-on in the Basin finally moved out about 5 years ago when the Basin was flooded via the opening of the Morganza Spillway.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:22 am to JOJO Hammer
So erosion that has occurred since the world was new is now an AGW (sorry, ACC) consequence?
(Full disclosure, human activity HAS contributed to this erosion, but that has nothing to do with carbon emissions.)
(Full disclosure, human activity HAS contributed to this erosion, but that has nothing to do with carbon emissions.)
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:23 am to kingbob
I heard the baw down that way don't play. Any truth to that?
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:24 am to chew4219
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Blow the levees south of New Orleans
Suck a dick
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:25 am to JOJO Hammer
Always love this thread topic. Can see who knows what they're talking about and who is clueless.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:28 am to slackster
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Control of the Mississippi River...
This is the issue related to the erosion of our coast line...
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:33 am to sjmabry
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I heard the baw down that way don't play. Any truth to that?
I have no idea what you're talking about. To which "baw" are you referring?
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:39 am to Bmath
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since 1955 has lost about 98% of its land mass to rising sea levels, hurricanes and the construction of oil and gas canals along the marsh
It sounds like the answer is "All of the Above."
Sea level rise may just finish it off.
that's like saying you have cancer(oil and gas canals), aids(levees), hepatitis C(hurricanes) and a hang nail(climate change/sea level rise)
and all of the above
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:46 am to JOJO Hammer
Have you been there? The people are filthy. They scatter litter EVERYWHERE.
And the greatest offense, the local grocery store sells ketchup packets that ate clearly marked, NOT FOR RESALE.
And the greatest offense, the local grocery store sells ketchup packets that ate clearly marked, NOT FOR RESALE.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:49 am to Thacian
quote:Literally just explained key parts of climate change
CNN reported....
It hasn't sunk you dumb morons,it eroded as ive seen many times with parts of islands being eroded by hurricanes and constants winds bearing waves on beaches wearing away large chunks of islands in la. CNN will stop at nothing and blame it on climate changes like obumer alleged that we are in a crisis with climate change when we are not.... they been using that money to spend elsewhere and calling it climate change money when its not
Posted on 3/7/17 at 9:51 am to klrstix
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Control of the Mississippi River...
This is the issue related to the erosion of our coast line...
Exactly.
Direct all that silt straight into the gulf instead of throughout our coastline.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:00 am to chew4219
All of South Louisiana is fricked as long as they keep the levee up for all of Plaquimines Parish.
Diversions aren't enough. There needs to be massive cuts in the west side levee and a huge canal dredged from the river to the marsh around West Pointe a la Hache.
They can build backside levees to protect towns like Port Sulfhur and Buras, but they status quo is destroying us.
Diversions aren't enough. There needs to be massive cuts in the west side levee and a huge canal dredged from the river to the marsh around West Pointe a la Hache.
They can build backside levees to protect towns like Port Sulfhur and Buras, but they status quo is destroying us.
This post was edited on 3/7/17 at 10:01 am
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:05 am to JOJO Hammer
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Fearing it will completely vanish, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gave Louisiana $48 million to relocate the island residents to higher ground.
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In the 1950s, there were about 80 families living on the isle, now there are only 50, according to the news station.
I wish someone would give me a fricking million dollars to relocate.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:43 am to JOJO Hammer
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Louisiana island that’s is home to first "climate change" refugees
Katrina refugees are more closely related to "climate change" refugees than so called "climate change" refugees from the Isle de Jean Charles.
The soon to be refugees from the Isle de Jean Charles should be more accurately described as "geologic" refugees. Their fate has more to do with the geology under their feet than the clouds over their heads.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:44 am to JOJO Hammer
Don't be coming up in here with all that fancy science baw.
We don't take kindly to learnin'
Posted on 3/7/17 at 10:59 am to choupiquesushi
It's not. While wetland loss in S. Louisiana is largely attributed to levees on the MS River, there a multitude of other factors that are accelerating the effects.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 11:04 am to JOJO Hammer
It has more to do with oil companies digging canals through the marsh to let in saltwater and subsidence. When I was a kid (i'm 39 now) They had a horse pasture on the island road, it ain't there no more.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 11:15 am to sjmabry
There are a lot of places around S LA most people wouldn't fit in
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