Erosion, floods make some final resting places not so final

The Associated Press ^ | January 21, 2020 | By LISA RATHKE

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WEYBRIDGE, Vt. -- When Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Clark was buried in a small Vermont cemetery near a river bank in 1835, it was supposed to be his final resting place.

But erosion over the years made worse by more intense storms has washed away some graves and left the remains of Clark, who fought at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, precariously perched on the edge of the steep eroding bank.

“That’s a big part of our history, and I think it’s terrible that ... this is happening,” said Tom Giffin, president of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association.

Rising seas, erosion and flooding from worsening storms that scientists believe are caused by climate change are putting some older graveyards across the country at risk. From western Alaska to Louisiana to the eastern shores of Maryland, some historical burial grounds are sinking or submerged in swamps. And the problems are not just in coastal areas.

“There’s no question but that archaeological and historic resources are threatened and arguably increasingly threatened with climate change effects,” including burial grounds, said David Anderson, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

On an island off New York City, authorities in 2018 found 174 bones unearthed on a site that holds the remains of more than 1 million people. The culprit was shoreline erosion.

[Amberdawn]

OMG...........I’m truly speechless.

[Responsibility2nd]

And that list hasn’t been updated for the last eight years. Think how many hundreds of new claims liberals have made regarding “climate change “.