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| Avery Island Could Disappear Because Of Climate Change |
| 2018-03-28 |
| The alarmists are putting in some overtime this week... [Guardian UK] - Avery Island, a dome of salt fringed by marshes where Tabasco sauce has been made for the past 150 years, has been an outpost of stubborn consistency near the Louisiana coast. But the state is losing land to the seas at such a gallop that even its seemingly impregnable landmarks are now threatened. The home of Tabasco, the now ubiquitous but uniquely branded condiment controlled by the same family since Edmund McIlhenny first stumbled across a pepper plant growing by a chicken coop on Avery Island, is under threat. An unimaginable plight just a few years ago, the advancing tides are menacing its perimeter. "It does worry us, and we are working hard to minimise the land loss," said Tony Simmons, the seventh consecutive McIlhenny family member to lead the company. "We want to protect the marsh because the marsh protects us." |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #8 If we hadn't dammed up the Mississippi river, Louisiana would be growing still. We're stopping all that sediment from reaching the coast so the tides rip away land instead of adding to it as the sediment load drops. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-03-28 20:17 |
| #7 I concur with the Chalula. TapaTio 2nd |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-28 20:00 |
| #6 The last glacial period ended 11,700 years ago. So that's what end the last ice age. :-) |
| Posted by: Elmong Spolumble8778 2018-03-28 18:14 |
| #5 12,000 years ago the coast of Louisiana was several hundred miles south of where it is today. Then the cave men burned down the subarctic grasslands to stampede the mammoths over cliffs and caused the glaciers to melt. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-03-28 16:46 |
| #4 Skid, try Chalula sauce. Personally, it beats others in taste. |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-03-28 14:11 |
| #3 Tide moves sand along coast. Mankind to blame says eco-idiots. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-03-28 12:26 |
| #2 I learned to love mess hall and rat food Tabasco but anymore it just tastes 'manufactured'. I've moved on. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-28 12:23 |
| #1 Most of the land loss in Louisiana is in the Mississippi Delta, about a hundred miles to the east. Areas west of the Atchafalaya River outlet, like Marsh Island, which is south of Avery Island, is actually gaining land. I used to have a satellite image of the whole coastal area, but I don't know where it is, and it doesn't show up if you search for "West Cote Blanche Bay From Orbit." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-03-28 12:13 |