Posted on 05/03/2016 4:42:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. - A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change.
With a first-of-its-kind "climate resilience" grant to resettle the island's native residents, Washington is ready to help.
"Yes, this is our grandpa's land," Ms. Bourg said. "But it's going under one way or another."
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.
One of those grants, $48 million for Isle de Jean Charles, is something new: the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. The divisions the effort has exposed and the logistical and moral dilemmas it has presented point up in microcosm the massive problems the world could face in the coming decades as it confronts a new category of displaced people who have become known as climate refugees.
A vast majority of the $1 billion disaster-resilience grant program is spent on projects to improve infrastructure, like stronger roads, bridges, dams, levees and drainage systems, to withstand rising seas and stronger storms.
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“NYT is merely reporting on the story. If you read the article, NYT points you towards the National Climate Assessment which has a wiki page where you can start your research so you don’t have to be a brainwashed illiterate. “
Been there many times, done years of research. Climate change has nothing to do with the sinking of Louisiana.
If you believe so, YOU are also an climate illiterate.
Global temperatures have changed by a claimed one degree. Anyone living in an area that cannot handle a change that minuscule should not have been living there.
Maybe you should sue the National Academy of Sciences?
You didn’t answer the question. Do you buy into the AGW storyline?
“I’m not a policy maker and don’t have anything to do with appropriating money so I don’t have anything to do with it. I just read about it. “
Didn’t your mother ever tell you: Don’t believe everything your read?
“Maybe you should sue the National Academy of Sciences?”
Maybe you should study up on the subject prior to dishing out insults.
That’s alphabetical!
Maybe you should ask Myron Ebell at Competitive Enterprise Institute. He's the one that got the dark money from Exxon.
Nothing like a FReeper aligning with the left wing AGW agenda.
I did. I had 31 hours of college chemistry and a career in industrial chemicals, working for the emitters.
Let me see. I have extensively studied paleoclimatology and recent historical climatology. Yet I am supposed to believe the output of models with an agenda programmed into their assumptions.
Yet I am the brainwashed illiterate. Gotcha.
Try reading up on paleoclimatology and get back to us.
“. . . working for the emitters.”
That’s a revealing turn of phrase, right there.”
Oldplayer
From reading your post, I would conclude you agree that rising ocean levels are imperiling Louisiana. Do I understand you correctly?
That is faulty logic. Many on the right elected to office subscribe, they just obfuscate to fool you.
It is first and foremost a left-wing agenda, it’s just that some on the right have triangulated towards it, or been suckered by it as apparently you have been.
Sigh. That is what stuck out at me, too.
Correct: Never use the words "polluter" or "spew" because they have negative connotations. Emit, emitter, emissions are more neutral.
Ben Ficklin, most thinking people understand there are many on the right who subscribe to it, and for a variety of reasons. Some of those on the right do believe it. Some of them simply pander to it.
But it is unequivocally and undeniably a leftist issue. Your language in your posts indicates you do subscribe to it, which is why people are asking you.
I am curious as well.
I get it! “Emitting” gases and particulates is far better than polluting. Who are you kidding?
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