A fascinating data visualization from Yan Wu shows how far the seawater has already come — and how close it is to encroaching on New Orleans:
Forecast of saltwater moving up
the Mississippi River
When the river doesn’t have enough water flowing, saltwater begins to move upriver from the gulf. The latest forecasts show that saltwater is likely to stop advancing near West Jefferson.
The surface water here started to contain salt.
Pointe à la Hache
(inundated)
Source: Army Corps of Engineers, data as of Oct. 4.
YAN WU/THE WASHINGTON POST
Forecast of saltwater moving up
the Mississippi River
When the river doesn’t have enough water flowing, saltwater begins to move upriver from the gulf. The latest forecasts show that saltwater is likely to stop advancing near West Jefferson.
The surface water here started to contain salat.
Pointe à la Hache
(inundated)
Boothville
(inundated
by saltwater)
Source: Army Corps of Engineers, data as of Oct. 4.
YAN WU/THE WASHINGTON POST
Forecast of saltwater moving up the Mississippi River
The latest forecasts show that saltwater is likely to stop advancing near here.
The surface water here started to contain salt.
Boothville
(inundated by saltwater)
When the river doesn’t have enough water flowing, saltwater begins to move upriver from the gulf.
Source: Army Corps of Engineers, data as of Oct. 4.
YAN WU/THE WASHINGTON POST
Forecast of saltwater moving up the Mississippi River
The latest forecasts show that saltwater is likely to stop advancing near here.
The surface water here started to contain salt.
Boothville
(inundated by saltwater)
When the river doesn’t have enough water flowing, saltwater begins to move upriver from the gulf.
Source: Army Corps of Engineers, data as of Oct. 4.
YAN WU/THE WASHINGTON POST
Rob lays out all the consequences that await the Big Easy, including one salty silver lining: Residents aren’t in danger of unwittingly drinking unhealthy water — because it will taste too bad to drink before it gets harmful.
The city is scrambling to prevent the worst, employing some pretty creative techniques. But why is anyone still scrambling?
Rob says it has been clear for a while that “once-in-a-century” environmental events are now anything but. It’s time for governments to start acting like it.
Chaser: When it wasn’t saltwater, it was the blackout. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in 2021, professor Rob Verchick added a better power grid to New Orleans’s climate resiliency checklist.
From Ruth Marcus’s column exhorting these aging judges to, well, get a move on. Their taking senior status would open up more seats for President Biden to fill with younger replacements in the quickly waning days of his term.
Ruth makes a pretty good pitch on senior status, too. Cater your caseload to your liking while keeping your full salary, staff and courthouse digs — “what’s not to like?” (Disclosure: My boyfriend spent last year working for a senior judge who had no complaints about the arrangement.)
Alas, this gamesmanship seems political because it is, but the sunny days of above-the-fray jurists are behind us, and nigh on half of presidential politicking is installing enough of them that your accomplishments survive beyond the end of your term.
So “listen up,” judges, Ruth writes: “If you’re eligible … now is the time.”
Chaser: Political, you say?! Hugh Hewitt made the exact same case to eligible judges — in 2019, when President Donald Trump still had the chance to replace them.
Rep. Jim Jordan’s latest threat — is there a listserv somewhere? — is to shut down the government when funding runs out in November if he doesn’t get border concessions from congressional Democrats. In keeping with increasingly draconian GOP rhetoric on immigration, he wants funding for asylum processing zeroed out and migrant detention massively (and expensively) beefed up.
There are ways to fix the badly overwhelmed border, Greg Sargent writes, but they’re not this. He calls Jordan’s demands “not just wildly extreme” but “entirely unworkable,” too.
In some corners of the party, such an outrageous demand is a perfect résumé builder for the speakership race, as Jordan knows.
But what Henry Olsen says Republicans really need in a House speaker is someone who can woo moderates; neither Jordan nor the other leading contestant, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, has that appeal.
To keep their party’s majority, Henry writes, “the next speaker cannot fix their gaze on who’s inside the GOP tent; they must also look for who could be persuaded to enter it.”
Chaser: Democrats, of course, would like very much to retake the House, as well as keep the Senate and White House. Jen Rubin says their best model for 2024 might just be 2022.
- Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab writes that progress will be made on a two-state solution in the Middle East only once the United States recognizes a Palestinian state.
- Leana Wen writes that policymakers must remove the barriers keeping seniors from getting an RSV vaccine before the virus hits hard this winter.
- As teacher conferences loom, Alyssa Rosenberg canvassed 10 writerly parents on strategies for disagreeing with your kid’s educators.
- You might not know who Claudia Goldin is. Let Catherine Rampell explain why her Nobel Prize is a win for all working women.
It’s a goodbye. It’s a haiku. It’s … The Bye-Ku.
There’s no need to leave the bench
Have your own newsy haiku? Email it to me, along with any questions/comments/ambiguities. See you tomorrow!
Credit: Source link
