In Senate Debate, Rep. Cassidy Says ‘Not Sure Climate Change Is The Issue’ As Louisiana Sheds Coastline

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/15/3580032/lousiana-cassidy-landrieu-climate-coastal-land-loss/
"Every hour, the state loses about a football field’s worth of land, and over the last 80 years some 2,000 square miles of the state’s ecologically diverse coastal marshland has succumbed to open water."