When the first island in the chain of glorified sandbars known as the Outer Banks of North Carolina remains submerged for any length of time, I’ll begin to reconsider my disbelief. Ocean to sound overwash is common during hurricanes and even strong nor’easters. Always has been. The only thing that’s ever held them in place long enough for human habitation to develop into fishing villages and resort towns has been juniper, live oak and yaupon trees. Other than high dune fields, none of them are more than a few feet above sea level.
Last I checked they’re still there, with beach cottages built as far back as a hundred years ago still intact. Is there beach erosion? Sure. Always has been. Those islands move. One end erodes, the other end expands from sedimentation. Are new inlets cut during storms? Sure. And they have been through recorded history. Old ones fill in, new ones form.
According to the climate change propagandists, it’s all supposed to stay the same, with any change being viewed as a Threat To Humanity that only they can fix at the federal level. It’s all politics, having nothing to do with anything other than increased governmental control over private property. They want to seize oceanfront lands. For our safety, of course.
As rising sea levels reach ever farther up the pristine sides of the Washington Monument, and dead polar bears float up against the White House porch, your gender-normative, hegemonic, patriarchal, imperial, colonial, and anti-scientific consensus remarks are an especial affront to the LGBT community and single moms of color and their children, who, as you well know, damn you, will suffer most, as sea levels inexorably rise.