re: Tulane study: Miss. Delta in irreversible collapse

The planet changes, always has, always will. Do these folks think that North America wasn't covered by Ice and Seawater at various times in history, which goes for most areas of the earth. Truth is, eventually most life on Earth will get wiped out again from one thing or another that is out of our control (meteor, climate, other catastrophic event, real deadly disease)

All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the back door. You can't stop what's comin', they aren't waitin' on you - that's vanity
Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men.

It’s going to wash away.

I could have told you this from my observations in the 1970 ‘s.

Don’t know about global warming or all that other fancy shite.

Could have told you this before hundreds of millions in engineering studies.

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I got fooled by a scary scientifically-cited animation by nola.com, right after Katrina, that projected the erosion of south La. progressing all the way up to the nola westbank by 2020, making Greater New Orleans the frontline of land that would catch the full force future hurricanes, the way Grand Isle catches hell.

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It’s almost there now.

There is really not much marsh left.

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Then they basically combine the two readings and come up with a global average.

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Like temperature, how do you get a global average?

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so it has nothing to do with the fact that we've unnaturally forced the river to be contained within our levees, and everything to do with water getting higher? frick outta here you swedish meatball bitch

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Right. No more river shift=no more sediment deposits but that doesn’t fit the “muh earth is burning” narrative.

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In Port Arthur there is a stepped "seawall" in Sabine Lake by the marina at pleasure island. Wall is probably 4+ miles long. Lots of people crabbing and fishing on these steps. My grandparents have photos of them on these steps back in the 1960s crabbing and fishing with family, etc...

The bottom step is not underwater today. Looks to be about the same height out of the water today as it was 60-70 years ago. 15" to 18" or so. We launch aluminum boats under bridges around the marsh in Sabine Pass that have been in use for 50+ years.

Exactly where is this rising sea level? Are we talking 1/4" and if so, how the hell do they measure that accurately?

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. Totally different geology in Sabine Pass Than the Mississippi delta.

Probably Pleistocene Clay instead of alluvial sediment.

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7.5 ft in 60 years. It's worse than I imagined!

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strike 2. 1/8” (inch) per year, not foot.

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Yes! Let's flood Jesuit!

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2016 is estimated at 3.4 millimeters per year .

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So almost 100 years (if current rate holds) to raise a foot