re: New Orleans s not only sinking, but it is also being engulfed by rising seas.

Why don’t you move into mountains? Seas aren’t rising, the wash from the Mississippi River is filling the Gulf. You believe the myth of global warming with zero absolute proof.

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Seas aren’t rising.

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They are but the process is 99.999999999% natural.





Source of that map is U.S. Geologic Survey.


If the Milankovitch Cycles are accurate we should get another glacial push from the north and sea levels will begin to decrease.

The good news it all this sea level rise and fall is very slow moving. Man is really good at adapting to a slow moving mother nature. It catastrophic mother nature moves we have difficulty with but generally we handle it very well.

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Look at a current, accurate map of coastal Louisiana compared to 50 years ago and then try to argue it’s made up.

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Land loss in Southern Louisiana is due to subsidence and the lack of Mississippi River seasonal sediment diversion.

Land loss in Southern Louisiana is due to the Mississippi River levee system and navigable waterway channeling (dredging).

The consequences of commerce over intercoastal waterways is lacking the annual sediment deposition to overcome the rate of subsidence.

This is not hard. (This comment not meant for you. I know you know this.)


ETA: we have higher rates of subsidence along fault lines that parallel the coast of Louisiana. You can see them on Google Earth.

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The folly of mankind.

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Meh. That's why God made Civil Engineers.

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Land loss in Southern Louisiana is due to the Mississippi River levee system and navigable waterway channeling (dredging).

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That I don't doubt. I could blow up my seawall and I'd lose some of my back yard within a year or two, but those are local problems. They're not climate problems.

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But I'm not lying awake at night thinking I'm causing it, nor should you.

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And moving the city is a cockamamie idea in the first place.

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Then suggest how you are going to stop N.O. from sinking and or how you are going to have a Sea Port under water.

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There has not been an increase in the rate of sea level rising. Yes it’s been rising slowly since the end of the Little Ice Age, but the rate has not increased with the CO2 or heat increase.

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Exactly. It has nothing to do with carbon output. There are underwater Indian mounds off the coast of FL….probably due to bison flatulation.

Mother Nature and geography are undefeated over long time scales.

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Why not just relocate farther up north of Louisiana? Build a new city with modern technology is the way to go.

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