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> Worst case sea level rise estimates easily gives New Orleans 300+ more yrs, likely much longer, a time frame longer than the current age of the city. Your ar
by eloff 5y ago
> Worst case sea level rise estimates easily gives New Orleans 300+ more yrs, likely much longer, a time frame longer than the current age of the city.
Your argument depends on this but you give neither numbers nor citations, so it's unsubstantiated and we have no idea how true it is. Numbers I've seen, that are bad, but not worst case are 6' by the end of the century and 20'-60' over longer timescales. I seriously doubt New Orleans will be just fine through that. Many coastal cities will have to move. It's not practical to wall in all of the coast to that extent. Many cities would end up being islands.
- pessimizer 5y ago> Your argument depends on this but you give neither numbers nor citations, so it's unsubstantiated and we have no idea how true it is. Unsubstantiated on this thread. I mean, you can look it up and find out if it's true yourself. It's also weird that you follow it up with numbers of your own, but also no references, so you must think that's alright to do.
- eloff 5y agoYou also don't know how substantiated my claims are, but at least with numbers you could look it up. Parent provided only an argument from authority. There is no easy way to falsify it. You'd have to do all the research from scratch.
- eloff 5y agoPeople don't seem to understand what I'm saying. If the OP at least gives numbers you can compare them to easily looked up estimates and find out if they're reasonable or if you can ignore him in a couple minutes. Without that I'd have to search projected sea level rise, then read all about the elevation, vulnerability to storm surge, levees, flood risks, etc for New Orleans. It would take hours to know if the OP has a valid point or not. You might have to do that anyway, but at least if his numbers are bad you can shortcut the process and ignore him.