Hurricane Seasons, Erosion, Rising Seas, Sinking Land Mass

[Duggie35]

Well, baws...if we can hurry up and convert those offshore oil production platforms to windmills, we might be able to save ourselves from these hurricanes.

Let's get on it!

We need a few powerful hurricanes to sweep through the North Atlantic near New England and other areas installing offshore windmills. The hurricanes might knock all that crap down and put an end to that foolishness and waste of taxpayer money in the form of government subsidies! If wind and solar was indeed the answer, the government would not need to subsidize those efforts. The U.S. has enough fossil fuel available to power our country for years to come. Just allow us to drill, drill, drill!

[BabbForHeisman]

We need a few powerful hurricanes to sweep through the North Atlantic near New England and other areas installing offshore windmills. The hurricanes might knock all that crap down and put an end to that foolishness and waste of taxpayer money in the form of government subsidies! If wind and solar was indeed the answer, the government would not need to subsidize those efforts. The U.S. has enough fossil fuel available to power our country for years to come. Just allow us to drill, drill, drill!

So all government subsidies should be removed from energy industry?

[CajunNation]

So all government subsidies should be removed from energy industry?

I look at this in terms of energy output vs. environmental impact.

In that respect, the only forms of energy we should be subsidizing are Carbon, Hydrogen and Nuclear.

[Big Tyme]

I look at this in terms of energy output vs. environmental impact.

In that respect, the only forms of energy we should be subsidizing are Carbon, Hydrogen and Nuclear.

You definitely need a mix. Have to add solar and wind, geothermal, hydro, etc. and cannot completely go away from oil and gas, at least not yet.
And I am ok with subsidies to a point. Corp profits should not be a byproduct of subsidies.

[HelmutVII]

I find it interesting that they include temperature measurements over such a long period of history and don't mention that the device used to take the measurement has changed. Obviously, measuring devices 10, 20 or 50 years ago do not measure up the the precision of the current measuring devices or methods. How are temperature measurements made today versus in the past? Were they taken at the same time of day or month, at the same location? Who is paying to take the measurements? Have the storms in the southern hemisphere been more active this year? It seems like the southern hemisphere is just as sensitive to global temperature changes as we are in the northern hemisphere. Inquiring minds want to know.

[CajunNation]

Man-made Heat Islands are real.

Any data taken from these areas is garbage.

[Cajunrunner]

So all government subsidies should be removed from energy industry?

I’d be in favor of it.

Just remember, a subsidy is government taking taxpayer money and actively giving it to an entity to prop up its goods or services.

A tax break is simply an entity paying less in taxes, though without that break, their goods and services would still compete in the market.

[Cajunrunner]

We need a few powerful hurricanes to sweep through the North Atlantic near New England and other areas installing offshore windmills. The hurricanes might knock all that crap down and put an end to that foolishness and waste of taxpayer money in the form of government subsidies! If wind and solar was indeed the answer, the government would not need to subsidize those efforts. The U.S. has enough fossil fuel available to power our country for years to come. Just allow us to drill, drill, drill!

It’s very interesting that the last couple of offshore federal lease sales, at least in the GoM, for wind farms have been flops. Maybe the Dept of Interior should be offering more acreage along the NE and West coasts where those states don’t want anything to do with “dirty” energy.

And just for the record, I’m not actively rooting for any energy source to fail. Our planet is in need of all viable sources available at this time. However, it also needs to be smart. We shouldn’t be shoving an “energy transition” for feel good points when such is economically impossible, and also, we shouldn’t be giving tax dollars for solar developers to rip out food crop acreage in favor of solar farms. That’s just flat out stupidity. We can’t eat solar panels.

[Big Tyme]

I find it interesting that they include temperature measurements over such a long period of history and don't mention that the device used to take the measurement has changed. Obviously, measuring devices 10, 20 or 50 years ago do not measure up the the precision of the current measuring devices or methods. How are temperature measurements made today versus in the past? Were they taken at the same time of day or month, at the same location? Who is paying to take the measurements? Have the storms in the southern hemisphere been more active this year? It seems like the southern hemisphere is just as sensitive to global temperature changes as we are in the northern hemisphere. Inquiring minds want to know.

You know it's a trend line and not isolated data points, right? AVERAGE temperature and all of that. But you know that.
https://new.nsf.gov/news/southern-he...ern-we-finally

Humans have used windmills for a very long time. It's not like the hippies invented them.

[Boomer]

Louisiana is an outlier situation. The state is built on mud jello, which is why a gravel road in Nebraska is more stable that an interstate running through Louisiana

It is also why when the dozen or so inland aquifers cause undetected subsidence the jello on the coast slides inward and follows suit.

It's hindsight and not their fault, but once the railroads decided to sell off the rice canals, the farmers should have found a way to coop ownership of the canal system. Of course, they were only shown how easy it was to extract billions of gallons of water from the aquifers and were even given grants and low interest loans to do just that.

You rightfully mention the lack of new sediment coming in but that is only part of the equation. That sediment that was once deposited was chock full of organic material. So ever since what you have is an ongoing composting effect, as the organic compost degrades it takes up much less space. Not being replaced. Some of the organic material takes decades to degrade and shrink.

The Dutch of the 16th Century and Cajuns of the 17th Century found a solution.

Today humans just want to do nothing and blame other humans, looking only at the false visual of what appears to "only" be rising oceans.

This is fixable, the solution is in the Cajuns history, they should lead the way.

A quick trip to Nova Scotia shows the solutions.…. Why haven’t we tried???