[Oldeconomybuyer]

[blueunicorn6]

Ahhhhhhh.....Baltimore.

The Baltimore jail has the best drugs and the female guards will do you for some.

[Ingtar]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

First the Civil War, then Trump voters, how will the island survive?

At least with fewer people they are less likely to capsize it.

[17th Miss Regt]

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.

[Myrddin]

Land subsidence is more likely than sea level rise.

[Milton Miteybad]

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.

[Mr. K]

"...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.

[Rebelbase]

Erosion isn’t climate change.

[teeman8r]

they must be sacrificed for their denial of man made climate change.

[Antoninus]

Ah, 25 years.

Where are the articles from 25 years ago predicting islands disappearing that actually came to pass?

[Vlad The Inhaler]

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...

[Haiku Guy]

Sandbars come and sandbars go.

There is no need to appeal to the religion of climate change to explain this.

[outofsalt]

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.

[cyclotic]

More “truth” from the Baltimore Democratic Party Daily Newsletter.

[Wuli]

The Island has lost 67% of its surface SINCE 1850, demonstrating the loss predates "global warming" and has long term geologic changes greater then "global warming" to blame.

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".

[Deplorable American1776]

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...

[Dubya-M-Dees]

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.

[eyeamok]

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!

[Hugin]

Been happening since the Civil War, but now it’s due to global warming. Right.

[sphinx]

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.

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.