Interesting little article

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Originally Posted by Gottogo49

Let nature run its course. It will do its thing.
Weirs too?
That works for me.
Global warming/climate change?
Some things will be different, animals adjust or go extinct.
It used to be the great Sahara forest.

At a certain level, you can't do anything. My comment was in reference to scientists trying to use this as a reference. They are not going to recreate such a complex mechanism. There is a difference between a mechanical control, such as weirs, and a process, such as land formation through sedimentation, which is what they are trying to do with diversions. Some things you just cannot recreate. Some things just have to be left to nature.

As far as the Sahara and weirs comments....those are two complete different things. The Sahara transformed naturally due to shifts in the Earth's orbit. The weirs are a response to a much more localized and simpler problem. Land formation through sedimentation and land loss due to unnatural salinity increases are on opposite ends of the spectrum of complexity. There are proven ways to reduce salinity. I cannot think of a single example of a successful MAN-MADE sediment diversion to create land in Louisiana.

And the climate change topic is ridiculous in my opinion. Humans have "sped" the process up somewhat, but this is something that has always happened. Louisiana was once covered with Glaciers.