As we know from other occasions, Donald Trump rejects the existence of climate change despite the fact that the evidence is clear and increasingly frequent. Due to the increase in extreme weather events, some populations are forced to relocate to safer locations. These are known as "climate displaced persons due to climate change."
Well, Tropical Storm Cindy has once again reminded residents of the Mississippi Delta this week that they may become the first to be displaced by weather. Despite all this, there are still people who deny the existence of global warming. How can they deny the obvious?
Tropical storm
Grand Isle is located in the Mississippi Delta and has been hit by one of the first big storms of the hurricane season which begins now with rising temperatures. The continuous rise in temperatures causes a large amount of ocean water to evaporate, causing the formation of large cumulonimbus clouds. In addition, atmospheric instability and pressure drops are what cause hurricanes to form.
David Carmadelle, mayor of Grand Isle, warned that Cindy's waves stole 10 meters from an island just over a kilometer wide and that land loss It adds to the 50 meters gained by the sea in the last storms that hit the town. This can be interpreted as a countdown or as a warning about the imminent effects of climate change on sea level.
There are also other cases such as Shishmaref, in Alaska, or Isle de Jean Charles, a town in the Bayou of Louisiana that since the 60s has seen 98% of its territory submerged under waterAfter hurricanes, sea levels rise and coastlines are lost. Obviously, everyone living in these places has to leave for safer areas. For this reason, they are called "climate displaced people." Last summer in Shishmaref Some 500 inhabitants had to leave the island after some 400 years dedicated to fishing. Due to global warming, the Arctic ice they depend on for fishing is less and less durable. This makes way for further coastal erosion.
to safe zones
In order to migrate to safer areas and not be the target of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, localities need to receive money from governments. Isle de Jean Charles has been one of the first to receive money for being affected by the effects of global warming. with this money, the population will be able to relocate to safer areas.
The money has been contributed in 2016 during the Government of Barack Obama and has an amount of 52 million dollars. With this money, it is intended to build a kind of urbanization that helps the residents of the town to maintain their closeness and not lose their roots or identity. The dozens of families who have begun to make plans to leave their homes due to rising sea levels are the first batch of climate-displaced people, who may multiply in the coming years and decades in the United States and the rest of the planet. .
On the other hand, New York City has also applied for the same funds seeing that the future of sea level rise is already imminent. In response to this rise in sea level, they must move inland.
Climate change and skepticism
As climate change affects more and more Americans, President Donald Trump denies the existence of a change in the climate. It is shameful that a person who has so much power denies something so obvious and, as a consequence, millions of people are going to suffer, not to mention biodiversity and ecosystems.
Trump decided this month to remove the United States, Second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world after China, of the historic international Paris Agreement to reduce emissions, something that raises the concerns of the communities most exposed to the impact of global warming.
Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska, has regretted Trump's decision as there are communities that are literally being swallowed by water.
