http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5742/1807
I, for one, think it's a terrible waste of money to rebuild New Orleans. It would make more sense to abandon the site and spend our money building on higher ground away from the coast, perhaps as far north as Memphis. Use government money (and mortgage more of our grandchildren's future) to rebuild the million dollar resort homes and timeshares along the sea coast? Hell no.