America's first climate change refugees are preparing to leave an island that will disappear under t

[dennishoddy]

Holy Crap! Is it true? The oceans are rising and people are being forced to move inland? Have I been wrong as a skeptic for this long?

"This used to be a forest of oak and cypress trees. In March, Louisiana state officials announced that everyone living on Isle de Jean Charles will have to leave. Where there were 22,000 acres in 1955 there are only 320 acres today. They are one hurricane away from obliteration. The evacuation is a test-run for countless coastal communities in Louisiana, who must all move as the seas take over the land. ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, Louisiana - America comes to an end here."

Well, there seems to be a little discrepancy in that click bait by the Business Insider.
If you delve deeper into the story and actually read it,
"The principal problem traces back to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 when the corps of engineers responded by building giant levees to constrain the river. The result was stopping the flow of sediment into its delta, which once gave the state's barrier islands the material to rebuild as fast as they eroded."

So, the liberal media is once again compliant in propagating the bullshat of climate change.
The Islands have been doomed since man intervened in 1927, one year before my dad was born.
Those barrier islands would still be here and much bigger possibly if man had not intervened.

http://www.businessinsider.com/isle-de-jean-charles-climate-change-refugees-2018-4

 

[RETOKSQUID]

The Islands have been doomed since man intervened in 1927, one year before my dad was born.
Those barrier islands would still be here and much bigger possibly if man had not intervened.

And probably would have helped prevent some of the damage done by the annual storms.

 

[dennishoddy]

And probably would have helped prevent some of the damage done by the annual storms.

That's what barrier islands do in nature. How can anybody call this a natural occurrence? Humans caused it, but the climate idiots continue to try and convince us otherwise. Its sad, and this subject will be brought up to our kids as proof from the left of "climate change", leaving out the evidence that it is not.

 

[deerwhacker444]

There's consequences to setting up shop on a sandbar..

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Reminds me of the "three little pigs"

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Mother Nature has first dib's on her property. She does with it as she sees fit. We're just guests here playing 'house' on her lawn.

Woody

 

[inactive]

It's not just delta sediment islands. Islands like the nation of Kiribati are expected to be underwater as soon as 2010. There's not losing land to delta erosion; they're losing exposed land due to rising water and warming ocean temps.

Debate the causes and our impact on climate all you want; we can't prove those and it's anyone's guess how much we're accelerating things. But we can certainly observe that the change is occurring.

 

[MacFromOK]

The climate has been changing since the beginning of time. In the '70s or '80s, scientists were predicting another ice age.

 

[Glocktogo]

I just want the climate change gurus to prove a period in time where the climate did not change. Is that too much to ask?

 

[MacFromOK]

I just want the climate change gurus to prove a period in time where the climate did not change. Is that too much to ask?

Weather folks can't accurately predict weather for a week.

But we should accept their predictions for the next century...