Posted on 05/23/2016 8:20:30 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
New Orleans is sinking fast — with one neighborhood losing as much as an inch per year, a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research found.
The study, which was conducted between 2009 and 2012 and published last week, used GPS and radar, including one device that captured images from seven miles above ground.
The most threatened section of the already-below-sea level city is Michoud, a neighborhood that sits between Lake Ponchartrain and Lake Borguen, and is being swallowed up at a rate of half an inch to just over one inch per year, the researchers found.
Though the researchers found that areas upriver from the city were generally losing less ground, one community, Norco, was losing an inch-and-a-half per year around industrial sites, including a refinery.
The researchers said that groundwater withdrawal was among the top reasons that parts of the region are sinking so rapidly.
Of course, distinguished scientists like Obonzo the Kenyan and Algore would say that the land isn’t sinking, the ice caps are melting and causing the oceans to rise.
No, no, no it has to be Bushs fault or Climate Change or something else scary. It can't be a simple scientific reasonable explanation. Has Bill Nye (smartest climatologist on the planet) weighed in on this yet?
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NO obviously needs to build a bullet train.
Swamps and land below sea level were never meant to build cities on.
My first thought, too. What grade-schooler wrote this? Everybody knows its manmade global warming that’s raising the sea levels.
Sinking land? Bosh! What an absurd notion!
The Dutch are stil holding on...
Everyone overlooks the obvious. Too many overweight people in NOLA.
Maybe Gaia is just flushing the town...
That's true and I guess you can't leave out Venice...
And then there is Death Valley.....
At least you can't drown there, usually anyways, but you can shake & bake...
“Everyone overlooks the obvious. Too many overweight people in NOLA.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Inevitably, it will tip over.
Why would there be a diminishing supply of ground water there....they are surrounded by water...the Mississippi river flows right by and the Gulf of Mexico is right on their doorstep.....MUCHO water.
I think all deltas subside over time. The increasing weight of the sediments causes compaction and eventual sinking.
“New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don’t wanna swim.”
Why would there be a diminishing supply of ground water there....they are surrounded by water...the Mississippi river flows right by and the Gulf of Mexico is right on their doorstep.....MUCHO water.
Their last good song. Also their first.
Don’t forget Lake Pontchartrain
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