Comments on: New Plan Proposes Protecting New Orleans By Restoring the Delta http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Iain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/#comment-31375 Iain Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:25:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34467#comment-31375 Dumb. Just dumb. $1 Billion/yr, year after year to stop storm surge, yet the oceans are guaranteed to rise year after year. Dumb. Just dumb. $1 Billion/yr, year after year to stop storm surge, yet the oceans are guaranteed to rise year after year.

]]> By: Pippa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/#comment-31374 Pippa Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:42:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34467#comment-31374 It is good news that they are thinking about working with the natural environment rather than trying, yet again, to tame it. I too have concerns that the eventual effect of rising sea levels seems to have not been taken into account. Thank you for a thought provoking article! It is good news that they are thinking about working with the natural environment rather than trying, yet again, to tame it. I too have concerns that the eventual effect of rising sea levels seems to have not been taken into account.
Thank you for a thought provoking article!

]]> By: John Kwok http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/#comment-31373 John Kwok Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:13:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34467#comment-31373 I don't think this would be a wasted effort, but the cost is substantial. One way of reducing the cost would be to ensure that more sediment is carried by the Mississippi itself into the delta, but that would mean removing dams and other barriers further upstream that have caused the substantial reduction of sediment flowing into the delta. Great article, Veronique and thanks for posting it. I don’t think this would be a wasted effort, but the cost is substantial. One way of reducing the cost would be to ensure that more sediment is carried by the Mississippi itself into the delta, but that would mean removing dams and other barriers further upstream that have caused the substantial reduction of sediment flowing into the delta.

Great article, Veronique and thanks for posting it.

]]> By: jaykimball http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/#comment-31372 jaykimball Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:36:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34467#comment-31372 Though restoring the wetlands might make sense in a pre-climate change era, now, with the inexorable rise of sea level, is this a waste of $50 billion? Cities like NYC and Florida towns are planning for the inevitable rise in sea level. Perhaps New Orleans should do the same. Though restoring the wetlands might make sense in a pre-climate change era, now, with the inexorable rise of sea level, is this a waste of $50 billion? Cities like NYC and Florida towns are planning for the inevitable rise in sea level. Perhaps New Orleans should do the same.

]]> By: John Lerch http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/01/28/new-plan-proposes-protecting-new-orleans-by-restoring-the-delta/#comment-31371 John Lerch Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:18:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=34467#comment-31371 How about not using "used to" in this fashion. It took me quite q while to figure out that you meant once upon a time rather than that we were using up the barrier islands. How about not using “used to” in this fashion. It took me quite q while to figure out that you meant once upon a time rather than that we were using up the barrier islands.

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