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NYT: Editorial on Climate Change and Louisiana
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:35 am
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:35 am
Good read, unless of course you don't believe in climate change, then this is fake news perpetuated by George Sorros or whoever.
NYT Op-Ed
Times-Picayune-NYT Joint Article Mentioned
NYT Op-Ed
Times-Picayune-NYT Joint Article Mentioned
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 11:39 am
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Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:36 am to 337Tiger19
Can't wait to see how many actual responses there are that don't contain the word melt in them
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:37 am to 337Tiger19
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Good read
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NYT Op-Ed
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:39 am to 337Tiger19
Climate change is a natural occurrence that can be exacerbated by human activity in specific situations e.g. Louisiana marshland
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:39 am to 337Tiger19
IMO, at it's core, this is far more a sociopolitical and economic problem in Louisiana than an environmental one.
See above, reader.
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It does make this reader wonder how the Netherlands has managed to construct 10,000-year flood protection when we don’t seem to have the political will to build effective 1,000-year protection that might buy us some time.
See above, reader.
This post was edited on 3/5/18 at 11:40 am
Posted on 3/5/18 at 11:41 am to 337Tiger19
These editorials are counter-productive because they distract from the real causes of Louisiana’s coastal erosion issues: subsidence and starving of sediment deposition.
If climate change were the issue, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida would all be seeing the same land loss issues, but they’re not. The problem is levees, locks, and dams, not fossil fuels, and focusing on climate change as the cause ensures solutions to the real causes go unaddressed and unfunded.
If sea level rise from global warming is true, there is no hope for the sinking land. There is only abandonment to the ocean.
It’s not true. The problem is subsidence. The solution is rebuilding deltas and marsh, the problem is money, the Jones Act (prevents foreign firms like the dutch from engaging in dredge or fill work), and the Army Corp of Engineers.
If climate change were the issue, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida would all be seeing the same land loss issues, but they’re not. The problem is levees, locks, and dams, not fossil fuels, and focusing on climate change as the cause ensures solutions to the real causes go unaddressed and unfunded.
If sea level rise from global warming is true, there is no hope for the sinking land. There is only abandonment to the ocean.
It’s not true. The problem is subsidence. The solution is rebuilding deltas and marsh, the problem is money, the Jones Act (prevents foreign firms like the dutch from engaging in dredge or fill work), and the Army Corp of Engineers.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 12:12 pm to 337Tiger19
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subsidence, sea-level rise and erosion
Starting and ending with dates can you please provide the magnitude of each cause listed above. In inches or centimeters would be fine.
TIA.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 12:49 pm to 337Tiger19
I don't believe in climate change.
I don't believe anything the NYT writes.
I don't believe women.
3 strikes. You're out.
I don't believe anything the NYT writes.
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KIMBERLY DAVIS REYHER
I don't believe women.
3 strikes. You're out.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 1:34 pm to 337Tiger19
Tear down the levees and see if in climate change can stop the Miss from creating land.
It sure hasn't stooped the Atchafalya from depositing a bunch of sediment at its mouth and creating more land.
It sure hasn't stooped the Atchafalya from depositing a bunch of sediment at its mouth and creating more land.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:05 pm to 337Tiger19
Soil erosion is exacerbated by the capture of total suspended solids (turbidity) further upstream in the Miss., and the creation of the levees which prohibit the distrubition of the remaining TSS in the water downstream, which causes the soil to settle.
Together it explains why Louisiana is more prone to flooding.
Neither of which have a modicum to do with global climate change.
I wish the authors and OP knew what they were talking about.
Together it explains why Louisiana is more prone to flooding.
Neither of which have a modicum to do with global climate change.
I wish the authors and OP knew what they were talking about.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:09 pm to 337Tiger19
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unless of course you don't believe in climate change,
This part is the fake news.
The climate changes, I don't know of anyone that disputes that. Is man powerful enough to change the climate is where the issues are found.
Good try though.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 2:37 pm to 337Tiger19
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Good read
How about getting the facts? Can you not do that?
quote:Is it that goddamned hard for you to sort through BS, before directing invectives, accusations, and derisives at the other side?
unless of course you don't believe in climate change, then this is fake news perpetuated by George Sorros or whoever.
Sea level rise is about 3.2mm/yr.
Three-point-two (3.2) millimeters per year.
Buy yourself a ruler.
Check out how big a measurement 3.2mm actually is.
Then, answer this. Assuming sea level has maintained 3.2mm/yr gains X 50yrs, does the resultant 5.9" rise account for anything approaching land loss being pointed out in Louisiana?
OF COURSE NOT!
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