Fifty years ago subsidence was recognized as a problem in the Galveston Bay area. Groundwater extraction, especially by industries along the Houston Ship Channel had created massive subsidence. The Harris County Subsidence District was formed, and has been slowly converting industries and cities in Harris County from groundwater to surface water from the Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers. It has been expensive, but successful. The higher cost of water also had the beneficial effect of reducing consumption. at least to some extent. Groundwater was cheap, surface water not so cheap, it has an effect.
I do know that Louisiana has always had this issue and they called engineers from the Netherlands for help with their problems. Another reason for this are these are large coastal cities with a lot of weight on land plus erosion. I live about 90 min from the Gulf Coast in a small town. No one wants to live on or too near the coast because of the cost and all the many issues that go with a coastal home, we have seen it for many decades.
Another part of the issue i don't see discussed anymore is the fact the we levied up the Mississippi river, so it not longer pulls in large amounts of sediments during flood phases, which in turn means less sediment is deposited through the Mississippi delta. this is a huge factor for coastal erosion in the southeastern Louisiana region, mainly areas like Plaquemines, St. Bernard, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes. Combine this with Hurricanes over the years washing a lot of the coast away with flood waters.
@@0IIIIII You can count on hurricanes on the Gulf coast. Been close by, hour or so away, 67 years and its a given. One bunch moves out and the next bunch moves in....to experience firsthand why the last ones moved. Seen them come and go for decades, while the real estate agents toast with Dom Perignon with every sale.
@@cryora To her credit, AOC did say that the world is going to end in 2031, which is twelve years after she said that we had twelve more years to live. Technically, she did not say that it would happen in 2031, she just said 12 years in the year 2019, so I did the math for her. She may not get the same results if she does the math.
@@christaylor8337 Al Gore did a whole presentation and documentary called The Inconvenient Truth that was well marketed. I don't know if AOC went to such great lengths, or if she just rambled about it to some news reporter.
When families from the coastal cities are forced to move to more inland states they will realize how realistic and non superficial life really can be. Different ways of living. Different scenery. if you noticed all of the land masses sinking are the places that are the most popular cities and are overpopulated.
people seem to be interpreting the title as referring to sea level rise, when "land subsidence" is a completely separate issue. they both lead to the same result; land sinking underwater, but with completely different causes
The only good thing about the sea level rises threatening the south is that Florida will be underwater! I bet in the next simulation, Florida will never exist!
They are not separate! As sea level rises it changes the water tables and other things. Look it up. The funny part is it’s climate denier states than will be under water. 🎉
It's almost as people should have listened to the scientists warning about this for last the 40 years, or paid attention to all of the insurance companies pulling out of at-risk markets, and not waited until the last, most expensive minute...
I was talking with a farmer in the San Joaquin Valley who wondered why the irrigation district didn’t fill the canal earlier in the season so he could flood his fields and recharge the aquifer. That was the same year Tulare Lake reformed so there was plenty of water coming down from the Sierras.
ROFL I NOTICED THE SAME THING IN EUROPE .... ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO THE GOVERMENT BUILT TYPEOF PEAR FOR OIL COMPANY TO EXPORT THIER OIL ... THE SHORE LINE TO THE EAST ...WASHED A WAY ... TO THE WEST THEY HAVE TO DIG THE BUILD UP OUT OF THE PORT ... WHICH WAS THERE FOR OVER 1500 YEARS NEVER A PROBLEM
I remember back in the 80’s I read an article newspaper article saying that Prince Edward Island was loosing land from rising seas every year, and by 2000, it wouldn’t be here….
yep, and ice age predicted in the 1970's. Gloom and doom and no coast or islands. It's only 5 years away, just like good nuclear fusion power and flying cars. In 100 years, when I'm gone, we should have a least 2 out of the 3. Who knows.
the train situation already happened in Southern California as Amtrak had to suspend service between San Diego and LA for a while due to a combination of cliff erosion and land subsidence on the costal bluffs where the tracks are.
People know that should be the solution, but it’s not that simple to move inland infrastructure that employs 54 million people and has 35% of the US GDP. All solutions should be explored
Just ignore it altogether. Florida has sunk quite a bit in the last 100 years. But If you lived there sine 1924, it's highly doubtful you'd even notice- you would have had much greater things to worry about in your life. You just build new construction a little higher each time and it takes care of itself.
@@user-jb2om7cm8m You notice when your yard and home start to fill with water, as the house sinks unevenly into the soil. You also notice the rising water in the streets.
@@ttoleafoa70 Your right it wont be simple, Its going to take the next 100 years, It will need to be done by not allowing reconstruction on the coast of large assets and hard infrastructure, It will just need to be little by little. And honestly it will most likely to happen anyways, due to high cost of insuring building on the coast.
To be fair what’s framed as “right” may have inherent bias to it. This is an issue don’t get me wrong, but what you think of as right may be heavily influenced by factors that may want to sway you in specific ways.
@@calvinhoward3808 good plan. i'd suggest you also come up with an exit strategy because you won't be able to afford to live there if what you're hoping for happens.
Most houses on the texas coast near corpus are on stilts so even if the land goes down, they will still be above the water level. If your house is a couple feet above the water level, then you'll be gone before you care.
Rubbish. Not a crisis. People will make personal choices that are best for them. Just do not encourage further coastal building by providing gov protections for investments. Let folks risk their own money and they won’t build there. Everything is not a crisis. This is certainly not.
6:20 the reason why underground aquifers are so important is that it’s clean as it is so far down it’s filter. Throw a bunch of man made “filtered” water back in you would contaminate not just a cities water but likely many many states water as the underground aquifers are all connected .
How do you know putting filtered water back in the aquifers will contaminate the water? What contaminates will filtered water introduce that could cause harm to the aquifer?
No one talks about the Greak Lakes. If sea levels rise THAT MUCH, then waterways would become to a higher sea level, which would in theory, increase the depth of the Great Lakes as well, or am I wrong? Simple hydraulics. I remember 10 years ago the lakes were extremely below normal levels and now we have coastal erosion from too much water. 😅
The only way to possibly combat this rise in sea level is to find a way to deal with the salination by product. We are spending so much money for space travel when we could be using that money to learn ways of handling the by product. Once that was done, then we could ship water to wherever we wanted, all countries could do it. That would certainly help with the rise in our sea levels.
This doesn't address the population problem. Even with birthrates declining, we have WAY too many living in this nation now. We already saw the damage caused by the population redistribution of 2020-2022. In my area alone, the population seemed to triple within a short period of time thanks to out of staters being bored during the lockdowns and wanting to live elsewhere. States need to impose population growth caps to ensure that land and the native population aren't harmed by sudden spikes in growth. I don't even like driving anymore because everyone and their stupid mother has a car!
@@eathecommienah we’re actually seeing a total decrease in population and it’s becoming a problem. This generation is reproducing less than ever. Look at japan there is actually an epidemic right now with the birth rate decline
How long have you been doing this? I live in Florida and I don’t want to get discouraged by the headlines of sea level rise and was hoping you could say more about this.
@@Graphics_Card long time, I am in Louisiana. To start observing if you are not into fishing or other hobby that gets you into or near the ocean. No matter where you are in Florida there is an old launch or dock. The quick and easy is to talk to the old locals. The other is to make a durable mark. Watch the tides so you make the right observation times and just observe a few times a year.
Currently trying to figure out ways to offset my carbon footprint and its also helping establish frugal living. As I cut my carbon output then I also spend less money by having less impact on my environment. I will also figure out ways to plant more trees and cut my energy consumption.
Yea I knew there had to be something going on with all these homes I keep seeing for sale in Biloxi and the forecast on the property value going down when I search that area online
@@ArkhamOrderly “We”? Who’s “we”? I spent my whole acid rain childhood playing outside. Still alive. Ozone layer didn’t get me either. Nor did Coronavirus despite never wearing a mask or taking the fake vax. I’d bet life has been hard for you. 😂
@@jasoncrandall well good for you. Too bad that's not true for millions of other people. It's even sadder that more people don't care about the lot of others. It's sad that some only care about their immediate circumstances with no regard for the greater good. Still, good luck to you. I hope that you don't one day need the help of another and are denied. Hate will be the end of humanity but I guess if you are the last one standing you will be happy, yet all alone.
they should make a big pipeline from the sea to the aquifer and recharge from salt water. Over time the salt will mineralize and plug the holes in the ground.
I keep seeing these types of headlines and speculation by researchers and studies done, but the coastline in Galveston Texas has not changed a single bit in decades, I don’t believe a single word. These people say about the climate.
0:28 why do I care about that how about how many people live in this region how much personal property value is located here and how many thousands of families could be impacted.
5:54 .... how does "borrowing water from a neighbor" change the amount of water overall that's being used? 7:23 oh, "borrowing water from a neighbor" as in "neighboring region with less sensitive water sources"
If you stop putting property on the coast as it is destroyed the problem takes care of itself . When something is not economically viable due to risks , then the problems take care of themselves .
The water table is rising. Is that the same as the land sinking? Or is the land sinking because the water table is rising? People don’t understand how this is happening and this video isn’t helping because it does not really explain what’s happening. I live on Delmarva and over the last 10 years the water table rose a foot. My neighbors are now experiencing flooding where they didn’t before after a storm. Trees are being removed and no longer sucking up the ground water. The problem is multifaceted.
Just depends on what topic that is being discussed, which are sea level rising and land subsidence but both create the same problems for coastal communities. In this video, land subsidence is being discussed. Main causes are because of drying out aquifers and a lot of focalized mass in an area. Such examples are being seen in Mexico City and NYC. Also, the water table is the same but since the soil is being compacted more, it may seem as if the water table is rising. I also think your take in cutting down trees is also influencing flooding for your neighbors but I am not sure if you live in a big city but also can be because of all the asphalt and concrete that doesn’t let water to drain into the soil as easily.
For 40 years I have been hearing about this. Seems Florida is still here. Also seems like it won’t be fixed. Amazing how we have known this for how long? Still no solutions.
"The bad news is we're sinking; the good news is we have time to do something about it". Yeah, right. How did that work out for climate change? We aren't good at being proactive. Get ready to be reactive.
People are always like “we have time to fix climate change” but they fail to realize Americans will never give up their freedom of cars despite them causing the most CO2
We have too much underground land. Instead of reconstruction we just built on top of, so much more weight on our crust also over populated. Another war might just be fate for the prolonging of earth/human species
I’ll never understand why people moved back to New Orleans after Katrina. I work on the river so I understand the importance of the ports. But people didn’t have to move back at the levels they did.
so when/if these other areas become inhospitable what do you think is going to happen to the cost of living in your area? think you'll be able to afford to stay there when thousands if not millions of people relocate "inland"?
