Scientists Warn Major US City Is Drowning And Can’t Be Saved

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[00:00:00]Scientists have put out a major new study, a new report based on all the evidence, based on the models, based on the predictions telling us that the city of New Orleans is already gone.

[00:00:14]And they are saying that evacuations need to begin now.

[00:00:23]And when I say now, it's not in the just general present tense of like in the next few years, we need to start relocating every single person that lives in New Orleans. No, they're saying now go home, pack, and get out of that city because within a couple decades, the city is gone. They are saying we have now crossed the point of no return with New Orleans and within our lifetimes it will be underwater. It will be the lost city of New Orleans.

[00:01:05]Here's how dire the situation is.

[00:01:07]Southern Louisiana is facing 3 to seven meters of sea level rise and the loss of 3/4 of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline to migrate as much as 62 miles inland, thereby stranding New Orleans and Baton Rouge, according to the study, which compared today's rising global temperatures with a period of similar heat 125,000 years ago that caused a rise in the sea level. This scenario makes the region the most physically vulnerable coastal zone in the world on planet Earth. The most vulnerable region on the coast is New Orleans, Louisiana.

[00:01:51]Listen to this. While climate mitigation should remain the first step to prevent the worst outcomes, coastal Louisiana has evidently already crossed the point of no return. In paleocclimate terms, New Orleans is gone. The question is how long it has.

[00:02:08]It's most likely decades rather than centuries. Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans days are still numbered. It will be surrounded by open water and you can't keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There's no amount of money that can do that.

[00:02:33]And yes, the city of New Orleans is of course below sea level, which is why we have invested billions upon billions upon billions of dollars both creating the levies so that the city doesn't just flood every time it rains, but also redirecting the Mississippi River to keep New Orleans afloat. Now, I don't know if you guys are, you know, I don't even know the branch of science this would be, but um one thing we learned in multiple different environmental science classes that I had in college is that rivers like to go wherever they want to go.

[00:03:08]They don't like to be redirected. They will attempt to correct themselves in the direction they were attempting to go. They shift, they turn, they move naturally over time.

[00:03:23]And we as a country have been fighting that with the mouth of the Mississippi River for decades and decades now because it's trying to shift.

[00:03:33]It's been trying to shift for a long time. Basically swamping New Orleans here. And we've wasted so much money just to keep that city limping along as long as we could.

[00:03:51]We refused to do the things necessary to avert imminent disaster.

[00:04:01]And yeah, we would still be fighting against that river trying to self-correct, but we wouldn't also be having to deal with rising sea levels due to climate change.

[00:04:11]We wouldn't honestly be that worried about gas prices right now if we had done what we needed to do years ago.

[00:04:20]Straight of horm wouldn't be in the news and most of us would still not even know that it existed.

[00:04:27]But instead of doing anything to address it, we have an administration right now that is spending hundreds of millions of dollars paying companies to cancel their wind farm projects and go to Texas and invest in gas projects.

[00:04:42]We're literally going backwards on the issue of climate change while scientists are screaming at the top of their lungs, get out of the coastal cities because you're going to drown.

[00:04:54]We have buried our heads in the sand, but the tide is still coming in. Thanks for watching, and don't forget you can catch Fair and Balanced Live every weekday at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, 900 a.m.

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