Posted on 06/14/2017 5:35:15 AM PDT by SMGFan
The mayor of the tiny Chesapeake Bay island community of Tangier says President Donald Trump called him after seeing a news report about the threat the Virginia village faces from sea-level rise. Trump — who was overwhelmingly backed by Tangier residents in November — called Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge after CNN reported on the island last week, according to The Daily Times of Salisbury, Md. “It was unreal,” said Eskridge, who spoke with the president Monday afternoon.
According to the mayor, Trump introduced himself and told Eskridge: “You’ve got one heck of an island there.”
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
[Eskridge said Trump reassured him.
“He said not to worry about sea-level rise,” Eskridge said. “He said, ‘Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more.’”]
Comments from a sage PRESIDENT TRUMP.
JEREMIAH 5:22
‘Do you not fear Me?’ declares the LORD ‘Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.
It looks to me like the island is already half under water. Erosion happens.
I will probably not be the only person to read this headline and think, "Why is Trump worried what a Moroccan mayor thinks?"
OTOH, those of a certain age are convinced that there was Moroccan in the 60s than at any other time in history...
I have long been amused at how others define geography by where the water hits the shore.
We have watched as land has emerged from the oceans due to volcanic eruption.
We know that the surface of the earth is made up of several plates that are in motion, although at a very slow pace.
We know that water will seek it's level. We know that some beaches will drift was the tides and storms rearrange the sands that make up the beaches.
Some folks like to fit South America into Africa like a puzzle piece. But the shores of both that give us that visual shape are merely defined by the level of the water.
Way too much Chicken Little - "The sky is falling!" to suit me.
“. . . and scientists predict that residents may have to abandon it within 25 to 50 years.”
Which specific scientists? How strongly do they trust their research (or is it just a “gut feeling” they have from being so smart?)
I’ll bet any of them $1000.00 at 2 to 1 odds against that residents still live on the island 25 years from now.
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, by Grahm Hancock
It’s all about the multiple shrines and monuments 100 feet or more below the current sea level.
It's almost funny. During all of my schooling, erosion was a standard topic. The Appalachians are not as rugged as the Rockies? That's erosion. The Grand Canyon is enormous? That's the power of erosion. Storms in MA are eating away at Cape Cod? Well, that's more erosion.
Today?
Erosion = proof that Global Warming is real and that we need to de-industrialize the nation and raise taxes and redistribute all wealth.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps the science is now ... politicized.
The islands of the Chesapeake have been eroding, falling away, and sliding into the lower bay for hundreds of years at least. I do not know, however, if more islands are being born.
Politicized science = knowledge erosion?
My Grandfather on my moter’s side, nee Parks, was born on Tangier. He told the story of digging up his parent’s caskets (wood) 100 years ago when the cemetary was being eroded away by the Bay, and carrying them by rowboat to the mainland for reburial. Smith and Tangier islands have been eroding for centuries. The Bay is not rising above itself, the land is washing away from the action of waves and tide. We see it everywhere the water meets the land.
Found info that the island is sinking....and cause goes back thousands of years. Add erosion to that.
They dredge constantly in the Chesepeake.
If young enough I would bet $1,000,000 that in fifty years the island would still be habitable.
You’d win your bet.
It’s said that at one time, the Appalachians dwarfed today’s Rocky Mountains....
That’s a relief... Now they just have to worry about the island tipping over if it gets too heavy.
The city of Olympia Washington has spent well over a million dollars preparing plans for the rise of Puget Sound from global warming. And this was back about 10 years ago. Their former Public Works Director was a real hard core believer. But it figures given that Olympia is as far left as San Francisco.
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