If the water level will rise a foot and a half or 2 feet, and the land is sinking at about a foot and a half or two feet, there are decisions that have to be made sooner or they will be made later for you. Those are issues we anticipate the plan would address. More fishing camps are being built in bayou communities, though not with the same rapidity as building starts north of the Intracoastal Waterway, according to parish figures. Opening up the Mississippi River to some coastal regions, with the understanding that some areas might not sustain commerce, is one solution Boesch said should not be ruled out. You may not even have as much time as you think.
Processes come in episodes and result in long-term climate change.
Sometimes they are related to climactic events, like hurricanes or the La Nina phenomenon, but in terms of looking at the future, we must look at how humans are changing the climate. In Terrebonne Parish, engineers were given the task of upgrading Island Road, a chronically flooding spit of land that connects the remote southeastern community of Isle de Jean Charles to the mainland. Using Boesch s approach, the bridge might not have been built. Last year, in Gulfport, Miss., the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought out a flood-prone subdivision with the understanding that the land would be turned into a park and no structures ever built there again. Past attempts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to relocate people from the flood-prone community along Deadwood Road in Gibson sparked intense controversy in the early 1990s and failed after residents rebelled.