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Originally Posted by Fuzz
New Orleans is sinking because the delta is eroding because they over managed the Mississippi. It has virtually nothing to do with sea level rise. It's about the worst example you could come up with.
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The compaction of the delta is problem, but rising sea levels in the gulf are a much greater threat to New Orleans than anything. The continued sea level rise associated with climate change will see the levees swamped in the next couple decades. Or maybe all this information is wrong?
https://theweek.com/articles/852411/...climate-change
https://www.markey.senate.gov/Global...eworleans.html
https://expo.nola.com/news/erry-2018...ana-south.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/b...g-away-by-2050
https://www.govtech.com/fs/How-New-O...te-Change.html
https://tulanemagazine.com/new-orlea...crescent-city/
https://www.choices.edu/video/how-ha...limate-change/
https://web.tplgis.org/nola_csc/
https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/f...wOrleansLA.pdf
If that isn't good enough, maybe New Orleans city government is a reasonable authority?
http://resilientnola.org/
https://www.nola.gov/nola/media/Clim...ew-Orleans.pdf