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TreeHugger: Large Areas of Mississippi Delta Inevitably Drowned Due to Sea Level Rise: New Estimate Shows
Peak Oil News: Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC: What's Happening: Shrinking Gulf Coast, Illegally Harvesting Rain, and more
Large Areas of Mississippi Delta Inevitably Drowned Due to Sea Level Rise: New Estimate Shows
TreeHugger —
... by 50% due to dam construction in the Mississippi River basin. They conclude that "significant drowning is inevitable" and that land areas now below 1 meter in elevation will become open water or marsh. What to Save and What Not to Save All of which means that we really ought to be talking about whether we ought to be considering moving development away from the coastline, and not spending the effort to save that which looks increasingly likely we'll have to consign to the sea. The Guardian quotes Blum as saying, I think every geologist that has worked on this problem ...
Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns
Peak Oil News —
... island chain sheltering New Orleans was lost in the 2005 storm. But the extent of the land that will be lost is far greater than earlier forecasts suggest, said Dr Michael Blum and Prof Harry Roberts, the authors of the study. "When you look at the numbers you come to the conclusion that the resources are just not there to restore all the coast, and that is one of the major points of this paper," said Roberts, a professor emeritus of marine geology at Louisiana State University. Guardian
What's Happening: Shrinking Gulf Coast, Illegally Harvesting Rain, and more
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... lands around New Orleans will be underwater by the dawn of the next century because the rate of sediment deposit in the Mississippi delta can not keep up with rising sea levels, according to a study published today...For New Orleans, and other low-lying areas of Louisiana whose vulnerability was exposed by hurricane Katrina, the findings could bring some hard choices about how to defend the coast against the future sea level rises that will be produced by climate change." [The Guardian] ...
GreenMonk news roundup 07/02/2009
GreenMonk: the blog —
... of what is already being called “vegitecture”.
Yeang’s designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents. It enables the construction to function as a self-managing ecosystem with less need for external energy.
tags: vegitecture, green walls, living walls, greenmonktv
Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns | Environment | ...
Weekly Web Roundup: Energy Star, FutureGen, jellyfish
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Japan fears massive jellyfish invasion.
ExxonMobil continues to fund climate skeptic groups.
Two major power companies are pulling out of FutureGen.
Sears Tower gets a $350 million green makeover.
The U.N. is using social media for climate treaty inspiration; it launched the Twitter-like site, Hopenhagen.
Great Lakes wolves are back on the endangered species list.
Study warns that Louisiana's coastline could be underwater by 2100.
The EPA's Energy Star 5.0 ...
