Ladies and Gentleman, behold a Southern, Republican soon-to-be-congressman who is concerned about climate change. “South Louisiana is somewhat of a canary in a coal mine, in that we are experiencing—and I want to be very clear on what I say here—relative sea level rise,” he said. “What’s going on is that Louisiana is experiencing unprecedented rates of relative sea level rise as compared to anywhere else in the country,” he said. “That’s a combination of the measured sea rise we’ve observed here, but more importantly it’s the rate of subsiding, or sinking. Now, if the rate of the sea rise projections are accurate, what’s happening in Louisiana today is something that other states and countries will be facing decades away … Without action, there are studies that show the coast of Louisiana could be up somewhere near present-day Baton Rouge by 2100.” Read more at wonkette/568620/louisiana-accidentally-elects-republican-who-thinks-science-is-real#alpoXousGWuiJdF0.99
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:49:54 +0000
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