Louisiana's Coast Is Sinking - Business Insider
Friday, September 19, 2014
Louisiana's Coast Is Sinking - Business Insider
I've read several stories over the past couple of months about beach erosion up and down the east coast. This story is about Louisiana. I thought the juxtaposition of reality versus fantasy was interesting. The map on the right takes into account non-walkable land. What should the map of Louisiana look like?
Louisiana's Coast Is Sinking - Business Insider
Louisiana's Coast Is Sinking - Business Insider
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Louisiana/@30.9733766,-91.4306989,775098m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x8620a454b2118265:0xc955f73281e54703 A little search on Google Earth shows that both parties are not completely correct.. The "real" result is somewhere in the middle. Although, it should be said, a satellite image would not capture the area of land that is recently submerged, or that still "shows" land but is still completely covered with water.
ReplyDeleteI must admit, this is alarming! Maybe the author downplays it too much, but it looks to me as rising sea levels would hit low-lying areas like Louisiana particularly hard. Just look at what has happened in the last 80 years! It reminds me of watching Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" and seeing for the first time images of familiar metropolitan areas being totally submerged in a hundred years. I think that this is stark proof of Gore's warnings, although the updated map here, in my opinion, is exaggerated. I know that major metropolitan areas, such as San Francisco or New York would also be drastically affected by rising sea levels. What is to be done?
This is very scary. I am pretty sure Professor Hussen would not be too pleasant with this new. Apparently all of the taxing methods the he wrote did not work too well in business world. But this is an alarming for all the business.
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