The entire coastline of the USA 'is' changing today. This is a map published in the Times Picayune. (click here)
Realize the Mississippi River is at a higher elevation than the Louisiana wetlands.
Understand this much. The only time those lands will be above sea level again, is when the Climate Crisis passes and moves toward an ice age. I am talking thousands if not tens of thousands of years and human beings might be around to witness it.
This is what happens when scientists are ignored for the sake of corrupt politics.
Tell those families their heritage and inheritance will not be populated by their family for ten thousand years. Go ahead. Tell those families how corrupt their government is.
May 3, 2016
By Coral Davenport and Campbell Robertson
In January, (click here) the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
Realize the Mississippi River is at a higher elevation than the Louisiana wetlands.
Understand this much. The only time those lands will be above sea level again, is when the Climate Crisis passes and moves toward an ice age. I am talking thousands if not tens of thousands of years and human beings might be around to witness it.
This is what happens when scientists are ignored for the sake of corrupt politics.
May 3, 2016
By Coral Davenport and Campbell Robertson
In January, (click here) the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees.
“We’re going to lose all our heritage, all our culture,” lamented Chief Albert Naquin of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, the tribe to which most Isle de Jean Charles residents belong. “It’s all going to be history.”
“We’re going to lose all our heritage, all our culture,” lamented Chief Albert Naquin of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, the tribe to which most Isle de Jean Charles residents belong. “It’s all going to be history.”
