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 ...
Only modern man thinks low-lying islands sitting on or just off the continental shelf are eternal. Some of the forces such islands have to face, compared to islands far into an ocean, come from the interactions of weather and tides where the ocean meets the continent. That interaction cretes forces that are always battering such islands. At some points those actions will deliver and deposit sand that can grow the island's depth above sea level, and in other cycles can remove sand and soil and diminsh the land of the island. The island Tangier sits on seems to have been going through those latter effects for quite some time. Weather patterns could in our life time reverse those trends, even under "global warming".
In my hometown, in 1900, an island disappeared in the middle of the Connecticut River. Was it Global Warming, Global Cooling or Climate Change? No, it was caused by the building of the Buckley Bridge. Erosion is not Climate change...the sand might be adding on another island...
Otisburg!?
I’d like to get one of those fossils!
Spent several days in Tangier last year with my wife. Beautiful place, very odd accent.. Mostly golf carts around the island, only a handful of cars. Met the mayor and chatted him up a bit. Got a good selfie with him. We did some beach combing and I found 2 arrow heads, one was immaculate and looked like it had just been made yesterday. It would be sad to see this place disappear.
Two-thirds of Tangier’s land mass has disappeared since the time of the Civil War,
There we have it, it all started with Muskets and Cannons!
It's just north of LEX SPRINGS.
Been happening since the Civil War, but now it’s due to global warming. Right.
Deeply religious islanders living in isolation with views that draw derision and ridicule from sophisticated tourists from the developed world … it's a lot like discovering a new, heretofore unknown tribe in the deep Amazonian jungle or New Guinea highlands. I wonder if they have a cargo cult, like the even more culturally isolated inhabitants of big city housing projects.
Shall we recall the global warming fascists and their prediction back in 1995 that the island of Tuvalu would disappear under the ocean by 2005 because of global warming and rising seas. Yes, let us recall that. Oh, darn. The island of Tuvalu still rises above the ocean and it hasn’t disappeared.
Oh, sh*(t. The lying fascist pigs got caught again in a lie.
a) post-glacial subsidence;
b) pumping too much groundwater from aquifers.
Naah, it's really global warming.
Wouldn’t that be the “Strait of Bakersfield”?
That's the Queen's English, about 300 years removed.
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