Louisiana Coastline, minus one meter of elevation

[Bucky]

In case the waters rise, New Orleans won't be like Venice. Houma will be like Venice. New Orleans will be like Atlantis.



So building that dome was pretty smart, it turns out. Assuming it's waterproof.

[hatrack]

1. Lots of real estate is about to get a LOT less valuable . . .

. . . possibly within the term of a 30-year mortgage issued this very day.

[Warpy]

3. Yeah, and think about those farmers, barely hanging on for decades

suddenly finding themselves with prime ocean view property to sell to some gullible yuppie who doesn't realize it's sinking.

Winners and losers, folks, winners and losers.

[maxsolomon]

2. That's what it's going to take, unfortunately

to end the "debate" on ACC.

it's too late to stop it at this point. Bye, NOLA.

[Bucky]

4. I was born in New Orleans. Good News: in 2050 it'll still be in US territorial waters

Still not as fucked as Miami.

Miami is outside the reach of US Coast Guard. But man, imagine the scuba diving experience.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RPavqhfSmtg/T2rALMcWbyI/AAAAAAAAH7A/q_-XFl0pqTg/s1600/Florida+Sea+Level+Rise+after.jpg

[Bucky]

5. This is the big one: North America. Richmond VA will be oceanfront property

[BigDemVoter]

6. A study done about 25 years ago showed that the Gulf of Mexico would be at the foot of Canal

Street by 2075 if no action were taken.

Well. . . NO action has been taken, and the city about floated away in 2005.

With the amount of land Louisiana is losing every year, it surely won't be long now.

And I keep thinking about former Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu's idiotic comment, "Louisiana is a great example of how the environment and the oil business can coexist without causing harm to the environment."

Yeah, right, Mary. But the Republicans are even worse.

[Mendocino]

7. Houma is in the southern extension

of the Baton Rouge Range where elevations approach 10 feet and the rare upland alligator Hilltopious Crocodus can be found.

[GumboYaYa]

8. That map is a lie, Louisiana has already lost much of the land shown there.

https://medium.com/matter/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52d1e

"A more honest representation of the boot would not erase the intractable disagreements — around global sea level rise, energy jobs versus coastal restoration jobs, oil and gas companies versus the fishing industry — that paralyze state politics, but it would give shape to the awesome stakes, both economic and existential, that hang in the balance. A new map would prove that Louisiana is ready to grapple with the extraordinary task ahead of it. A new map would prove that denial, like the boot, is a remnant of our past."