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Vanishing Tangier and the Chesapeake's first climate change refugees
The Baltimore Sun ^
| October 3, 2018
| By Dan Rodricks
Posted on 10/03/2018 12:32:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists believe Tangier Island, in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay, could vanish within the next 25 years. Two-thirds of Tangier's land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War, and in recent years sea-level rise caused by global warming took more acres from the island. Fewer than 500 people remain there. Many of them voted for Donald J. Trump, share his rejection of climate change as the reason for their existential challenge and insist that a seawall around the island would save it from further "wave erosion."
The deeply religious islanders have frequently been in the media spotlight, often the subject of derision and ridicule for their climate change denials and support of Trump.
Journalist and author Earl Swift spent more than a year on Tangier, learning about the island way of life and the work of the watermen who've harvested blue crabs and oysters for generations.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: chesapeakebay; globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism; tangierisland; virginia
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ahhhhhhh.....Baltimore.
The Baltimore jail has the best drugs and the female guards will do you for some.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:34:34 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If the sea level were rising, I would expect to see it in many other places. However, if the island near the mouth of the river is sinking, think New Orleans, due to engineering the water flow, that would seem more plausible.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:34:51 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
To: Oldeconomybuyer
First the Civil War, then Trump voters, how will the island survive?
At least with fewer people they are less likely to capsize it.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:35:20 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The deeply religious islanders have frequently been in the media spotlight, often the subject of media derision and ridicule for their climate change denials, religious beliefs, failure to accept LGBTQs as normal, insistence on their children learning to read, write and do arithmetic, silly archaic notions of what is normal and support of Trump.
To: Ingtar
f the sea level were rising, I would expect to see it in many other places. Nope, dont ya know, it only happens in certain spots. Unlike a glass of ice cubes melting, where the water rises uniformly, increased water volume caused by Global Warming(TM)only effects areas that can be used to promote it. It's a very self serving phenomena, and a bit narcissistic. Unlike other environmental changes, Global Warming(TM) is very savy when it comes to marketing itself.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:39:26 PM PDT
by
Turbo Pig
(To close with and destroy....)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Land subsidence is more likely than sea level rise.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:42:55 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: blueunicorn6
Yes! Rising sea levels! All according to plan! Muahaha!
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:45:23 PM PDT
by
z3n
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What’s the water source for the inhabitants of the island? If they’re extracting their water from wells pumping from underground aquifers, then their problem is probably subsidence, not sea level rise.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:45:40 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...and in recent years sea-level rise caused by global warming took more acres from the island"You can stop reading right there. Everything that follows is as stupid as that statement.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:45:40 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Erosion isn’t climate change.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:46:34 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Consensus isn't science.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
they must be sacrificed for their denial of man made climate change.
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:48:42 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ah, 25 years.
Where are the articles from 25 years ago predicting islands disappearing that actually came to pass?
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posted on
10/03/2018 12:49:39 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Two-thirds of Tangier's land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War Once they introduced those horse-drawn SUV's it was downhill for the climate...
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:04:27 PM PDT
by
Vlad The Inhaler
(Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sandbars come and sandbars go.
There is no need to appeal to the religion of climate change to explain this.
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:05:21 PM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: Ingtar
It isnt climate change. The current Jin the Bay scours that side of the Bay. Thats why Poplar Island almost disappeared. Best solution is to sink old wooden barges around Tangier where the scour is strongest and fill them with dredging spoil from the harbors.
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:15:12 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: z3n
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:17:31 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: 17th Miss Regt
Oh my god.Like the polar bears?
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:19:12 PM PDT
by
spincaster
( AM A)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I live in York County, Virginia about 35 feet above sea level.
Near our home is a creek and after a good storm you can find Virginia’s state fossil poking out from the eroded banks.
Chesapectin jeffersonius is a scallop shell about the size of a salad plate. It once lived in a sea that was at least 35 feet deeper than today.
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:33:06 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
More “truth” from the Baltimore Democratic Party Daily Newsletter.
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posted on
10/03/2018 1:36:57 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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