He posted this map on his web site showing how global warming is targeting Louisiana with sea level rise.
NOAA explains what is really going on in Louisiana :
When the area was settled, however, levees were built to contain the river. While levees stopped the flooding and protected the population, they also stopped the natural replenishing of the land.
http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag101.htm
He’s a believer all right.
This is dedicated to Brother Joe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts
I mistyped. It should have been Brother Joseph. We should show some respect to the enlightened! 😉
This is the same issue in the Chesapeake Bay region.
I thought this was “Common Knowledge” and that a “Consensus” had already been formed regarding the subsistence issues on these river deltas.
I never thought I would see the day that Joe Romm declared war on climate science!
I saw that the first time I read one of his sermons!
He has been at war with “Real” science since his Clinton days, so why not turn his delusions on pseudo science also?
This kind of lets a person know how much stock to put in anything Romm puts out. The old adage ” one should keep his mouth shut and let people think he is a fool rather than open it and remove all doubt”. Damn. It must be tough to be a CAGWer these days. For the skeptic it is like shooting ducks on the pond along with some humor.
There was a great and very prescient article on this subject of the loss of delta lands in National Geographic about a year before Katrina wrought her damage.
I’m confused — how is the threat of sea level rise from global warming inconsistent with the threat of subsidence and lack of delta replenishment?
I mean, it’s possible to have both a cold and a broken nose at the same time.
Coastal Louisiana is sinking at a rate of 10 mm per year. In 100 years it will sink by one metre. Voting for the Democratic Party candidate will not prevent it.
Doesn’t that make sea level rise, even at present low levels, an even greater threat to this area?