Posted on 07/05/2023 5:21:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Maryland’s iconic Smith Island faces one of the nation’s most dire forecasts for rising seas, but real estate is booming.
... More homes have sold on Smith Island in the last three years than in the previous 11 combined, according to sales data. Locals see a story of hope. Their efforts to rescue a 400-year-old way of life tied to tide and season are beginning to bear fruit. Many question the doomsday predictions for the island or hope they can find a way to ride out rising waters.
Environmentalists see a dangerous kind of denialism. They say Smith Island’s long-term survival is doubtful, so the only rational path is retreat. They see the recent interest in the island as part of an unsettling national trend — studies show more Americans are moving into climate danger zones.
By the time Hurricane Sandy arrived in 2012, Smith Island had suffered a long decline. The population had dwindled from a peak of around 800 in the 1900s to less than 200 and an economy centered on crabs and oysters was fading. Roads were crumbling and a sewer plant failing.
Another threat was also looming: climate change.
William Sweet, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the island, which averages a couple feet above sea level, could see bay waters rise by roughly a foot by about 2050, meaning even moderate flooding could send waters sloshing across the land. By 2100, Sweet said, an additional foot of sea-level rise is expected — a scenario that could submerge most of the island.
Sweet said Smith Island’s situation is worse because it is sinking, a process caused by land settling after the last ice age, groundwater pumping and the compaction of earth stirred up by an ancient meteor strike.
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A new front opens in the war against living in First World comfort.
I've been seeing that phrase a lot lately.
Rust, and GreenTards, never sleep.
Any documented rise in the last 10 years?
20 years?
50 years?
It's a cycle of nature.
it’s sinking...nothing to do with climate
“Sweet said Smith Island’s situation is worse because it is sinking, a process caused by land settling after the last ice age, groundwater pumping and the compaction of earth stirred up by an ancient meteor strike.”
That doesn’t sound like climate change.
Leftists are always flummoxed when people don’t buy into their BS.
Mission accomplished! :)
Oh, pshaw. Don’t let facts get in the way of a good ideological struggle for power!
-—alluvium-—
Ooops...... four syllables
Enviro wackos can’t pronounce nor understand words containing four syllables
There’s greater probability a new meteor strike would wipe out Smith Island than climate change. We need a new trillion dollar program to end the threat of meteor strikes.
Inner Party members are Double-Think experts.
It pays off when they can frighten outer party members out of spaces that they want for themselves.
That’s a bonus extra that Orwell didn’t go into. Soviet bigwigs had their Dachas, so it’s not like he didn’t know the game.
Obama's homes are ocean front properties in several states. Must be "denialism."
“More homes have sold on Smith Island in the last three years than in the previous 11 combined”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Gee, what happened about 3 years ago that might drive these increased sales?
Oh yeah, a phenomenally corrupt administration in DC stole the election and now dirty, dirty money is flowing to all the corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and attorneys in the region.
And where does a lot of that massive pipeline of dirty money end up? Waterfront property! Ding ding ding!
If Chinese troops land on one side of the island.
SOMEBODY WARN HANK JOHNSON!!!
Environmentalists see a dangerous kind of denialism.”
“Environmentalists “ are mostly deluded fools or hucksters getting rich off of endowments
Yes. I remember back in the 80s, before Global Warming was a hot topic (fear of a coming Ice Age was still sort of a thing). At that time, there was a lot of talk of “beach erosion”. And that is actually a real topic. Winds and waves do eat at the shoreline. The coast changes. Always has. Always will. Erosion is not a myth. But, today, people see erosion, and islands in estuaries coming and going and they just say, “We must deindustrialize. All of this climate change is out fault.” I find it unbearably stupid.
When you drive along Florida’s coast and stop in restaurants, they often have historic photos of the beach. Some date back to the nineteen tens. You can often recognize landmarks and they tide line hasn’t changed in all that time.
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