clif wrote:And so it begins;
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In January, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants totaling $1 billion in 13 states to help communities adapt to climate change, by building stronger levees, dams and drainage systems.
I don't mean to start a climate change debate, but the fact that a grant with "climate change" written on it, has been awarded by HUD, is not necessarily an indication of climate change effects.
Regarding the island community:
The road leading to Isle de Jean Charles often floods, cutting off the community.
I would ask -- how long has it been flooding? Forever? Is it demonstrably worse, over time? If so, how much of that is due to the logging and oil operations?
For over a century, the American Indians on the island fished, hunted, trapped and farmed among the lush banana and pecan trees that once spread out for acres. But since 1955, more than 90 percent of the island’s original land mass has washed away.
Channels cut by loggers and oil companies eroded much of the island, and decades of flood control efforts have kept once free-flowing rivers from replenishing the wetlands’ sediments. Some of the island was swept away by hurricanes.
The above sounds like it was actually the "channels cut by loggers and oil companies" that eroded the whole island -- that isn't climate change.
And then also, "hurricanes" have caused erosion. So, that's normal as well.