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AtheistCrusader

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16. Also, New Orleans isn't worth discussing in this context.

Reply to IrishAyes (Reply #15)

Thu May 23, 2013, 12:10 PM

May 2013

NOLA's problem isn't that the sea is rising. New Orleans is SINKING relative to the ocean. Doesn't really matter if the ocean rises or not. Sea Level change is just a side discussion for them.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2006/03/28-02.html

If I lived there, I'd be getting out, ASAP. I expect that within my lifetime, parts of New Orleans will be a popular scuba attraction.

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