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How to Rebuild the Mississippi Delta
Posted by New York Times: Kelly Slivka on July 25th, 2012
New York Times: You may remember that during last year’s epic Mississippi River flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers opened spillways upriver of New Orleans and Baton Rouge to divert some water away from the cities. One of those spillways was the Bonnet Carré, built in the early 1930`s to protect New Orleans from high water.
When most of its bays were opened last May, the Bonnet Carré redirected 10 to 20 percent of the Mississippi’s floodwater out of the river and into Lake Pontchartrain.
While the diversion...
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A Sizzling Start to the Year
Posted by New York Times: Kelly Slivka on July 9th, 2012
New York Times: It’s official, although not necessarily a surprise. The average temperature across the contiguous United States for the first six months of this year has been the warmest on record -- and by a considerable sum -- dating back to 1895, according to a monthly report released Monday by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.
The average 2012 temperature through June was 57.4 degrees Fahrenheit -- 4.5 degrees higher than the long-term average for the same period. That`s 1.5 degrees warmer on average...