Stephan: Here we see yet another Maga state that is going to be pulled out of its Trumpian racist fantasies. I expect Louisiana will vote for Trump and his climate change denial in November, even as the Earth changes the ground beneath their feet. We will see how these Maga states deal with that. This article may be considered the Best Case Scenario, and I do not think it is accurate. Schwartz' Law says when it comes to accounts of climate change the reality will come quicker and be much worse than predicted.
So what will Louisiana do over the next couple of decades? My prediction is Louisiana will become even more than it currently is less a state and more a third world country, and they will look to the federal government, which will use the largesse of the Blue states to bail them out. All these Red states already get more back than they put into the federal treasury.
As a nation just as with the pandemic we are idling away the time with our leader playing golf instead of planning. It is all in the prep, and we are unprepared.
Aerial view of Louisiana wetlands Credit: Times-Picayune
Because of increasing rates of sea level rise fueled by global warming, the remaining 5,800 square miles of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands in the Mississippi River delta will disappear. The only question is how quickly it will happen, says a new peer-reviewed study published Friday in Science Advances.
“This is a major threat not only to one of the ecologically richest environments of the United States but also for the 1.2 million inhabitants and associated economic assets that are surrounded by Mississippi Delta marshland,” the report concludes.
The new study reviewed the rates of sea-level rise that caused wetlands to disappear along Louisiana’s coast during the 8,500-year history of the current Mississippi River delta. It found that at rates of relative sea level rise — the combination of rising water and ground subsidence — of between 6 and 9 millimeters a year , ancient coastal marshes would turn into open water within 50 years. At rates of 3 millimeters a year, it would take a few centuries.
The globally averaged rate of sea-level rise between 2006 and 2015 […]
