Maybe I should take a different route.
"As climate changes, Louisiana seeks to lift a highway" by Juliet Eilperin | Washington Post, March 25, 2012
GOLDEN MEADOW, La. - The dilemma facing this important lowland road is one shared by communities across the country as climate change begins to transform the nation’s landscape....
Actually, it isn't that at all.
The Obama administration is trying to plan for a country altered by shifts in precipitation, higher oceans, and more intense periods of heat.
Where?
It is rethinking infrastructure projects and creating a new plan for how to manage plants and wildlife in the face of global warming. Every agency is required to come up with a plan by June for how to adapt to climate change.
Yeah, right, tell it to Europe and the Southern Hemisphere.
“It’s about how do we incorporate planning for a future that may look very different from the way the world looks today,’’ said Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, who is spearheading the administration’s federal adaptation strategy.
Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who started measuring tides in Louisiana in the mid-1800s, have analyzed the numbers for Highway 1, and they do not bode well. At today’s rate of sea-level rise the road would be under water roughly 22 days of the year by 2030.
I'm tired of agenda-pushing liars.
Windell Curole did not need NOAA’s number-crunching to tell him what’s coming. The 60-year-old general manager of the South Lafourche Levee District said he could not see open water from this road when he was growing up. Now, it is in plain sight, just yards away.
The land is sinking, in part because engineers have redirected sediment flowing from the Mississippi River more directly into the Gulf of Mexico, improving navigation but no longer shoring up the wetlands.
Oh, so it is NOT DUE to GLOBAL WARMING at all!
And climate change is starting to make the problem worse.
Whatever, s*** media.
Not only is the sea rising as the ocean warms and expands, but heavier rainfall in shorter bursts is battering Highway 1. Curole has devised a simple mantra that he believes will address sea level rise, as long as the federal government heeds it: “Elevation is the salvation from inundation.’’
But not from indoctrination and inculcation.
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And there it is again.
