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To: combjelly who wrote (248214)	8/31/2005 1:19:33 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574097

"Whether global warming is real or not" Which isn't really the big problem in Louisiana. The problem has to do with the way we've messed with the flow of the Mississippi. The silt is no longer deposited in the marshes, the river has been channelized so that it flows well into the Gulf before the silt is deposited. So, as the interstitial water is squeezed out of the sediments, as happens over time, there isn't any new deposits on top. If you load up Google Earth and follow the Mississippi out, you see this long, skinny piece of land on each side of the river that goes a long way out in the Gulf. That didn't exist in anywhere near that form until we started interfering. I am often struck by how foolish humans are in where they build major settlements. Cities like Los Angeles, SFO and NO should never have been allowed to have gotten as big as they have gotten. Do you realize if a major quake hits CA and incapacitates SFO, LAX and SD indefinitely, the economy of this country will be decimated? Knowing what I know about development, we should be thinking twice before building cities like Houston which has so many bayous that flood regularly or a city like Pittsburgh which is at the confluence of three major rivers or several cities in the Midwest that sit at elevations below that of major rivers passing by, let along building a major city like NO in 'a canyon' between a large lake and a major river or building casinos that 'float' on the water in an area that can sustain major hurricanes. And I can tell you that the $25 billion estimated to rebuild the Gulf Coast is way underestimated. What I've seen today in video clips tells me that $50 billion is very possible when all is said and done. As for global warming, if that's what caused the Gulf to be two degrees warmer than normal, then it contributed directly to the size of this hurricane and that helped make this disaster particularly tragic. Which brings up a point. Just look around on the delta down there. There was a lot of development out there and not a lot of reason to be optimistic that they did better than Slidell. I don't doubt it. And watch........all of it will get rebuilt. ted