Scientists say Va. Island that voted for Trump is threatened by sea level rise. Response - insane.

[riversedge]

Both Trump and the mayor are deceptive---and stupid.



Scientists say Va. Island that voted for Trump is threatened by sea level rise. Response - insane.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/17/1672787/-Scientists-say-Va-Island-that-voted-for-Trump-is-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-Response-insane


By Idontknowwhy


Saturday Jun 17, 2017 · 10:03 PM CST


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Former Tangier cemetery.


Trump calls up the mayor and says “Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe it will be for hundreds more”.

However, studies show that sea level rise is affecting Tangier at an alarming rate. A graphic from the the Army Corps of Engineers shows what the island will look like in the next century if nothing is done. In fact, Tangier is losing up to 16 feet of shoreline per year. On an island that's only 1.3 square miles, that's significant.

As reported by CNN. The mayor of the Trump voters responds:

"The sea level rise, I just don't see it," Eskridge said. "The reason we're focused on erosion is because we can see it. Erosion will take us away long before sea level rise will."

snip.

Eskridge told Trump that he hoped the President would cut down the time on studies and maybe help with funding a sea wall. But he said they didn't go into detail about the wall, which the mayor says Tangier needs to survive, or about the jetty the island is expected to get next year for erosion of the harbor.

Perhaps they can get the Atlantic ocean, or maybe Mother earth, to pay for this wall...........................





CNN report prompts Trump to call mayor of disappearing island
Jennifer Gray

By Jennifer Gray, CNN

Updated 3:46 PM ET, Thu June 15, 2017
U.S. island in danger of being swallowed by sea


http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/us/weather-president-trump-calls-tangier-mayor/index.html


U.S. island in danger of being swallowed by sea 05:30
Story highlights

CNN report on tiny Tangier Island leads to a call from President Trump
Mayor says he and the President are on the same page about erosion

(CNN)In early June, I joined a small CNN crew on the little ferry -- which leaves only during calm weather -- to Tangier Island, Virginia. Located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, less than 100 miles from Washington, the island has no cell phone service.

So if you are out on your boat crabbing -- like the mayor of Tangier was on Monday -- and expecting a call, it may take a while to get to the nearest phone, no matter how important the caller.

After talking with residents for two days, we did a story about how sea level rise and erosion is expected to wash away this island in as little as 20 years.

The people of the town made it clear that they needed help protecting the island. That's when the mayor of Tangier made a plea to President Trump for help.
The phone rang -- and it was the President
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The mayor said he was out crabbing on the bay, as he does every day, when his son drove up in his boat to tell him to "get home and wait by the phone; the President wants to talk to you." Eskridge didn't believe his son at first but eventually decided to head in. Sure enough, about 2 p.m., the President called his home.......................




Tangier, an island in the Chesapeake Bay, is disappearing ...
www.slate.com/.../tangier_an_island_in_the_chesapeake_bay_is_disappearing_under...
Sep 11, 2014 - Largely unknown, Tangier Island, Virginia, is one of the most isolated and ... Far fewer know of Tangier, an island right here in the U.S. that's ...



Editorial: Tangier Island is hurt both by erosion and climate change



https://pilotonline.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-tangier-island-is-hurt-both-by-erosion-and-climate/article_31a57398-81c0-50b4-93d9-04e77059e8d1.html
By The Virginian-Pilot Editorial Board
Jun 17, 2017

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...............It’s certainly true that erosion is a huge problem for the island.

David Shulte, a marine biologist with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, told Physics Today, “The water is now high enough that it’s striking above the sand line on the island. … The island (Tangier) is basically a sunken sand hill ...(peat marsh on top of the sand is) very soft organic clay soil. … Once the water gets high enough to hit the peak directly, it’s just tearing the island to pieces.”

However, it’s willful ignorance to believe these effects aren’t amplified by climate change and the resulting sea-level rise. Scientists, climatologists and members of the Army Corps all agree as such.

[DFW]

1. Well, Trump is here to save the day.

That rising water that is about to inundate your home is just due to erosion, not rising seawater.

Don't you get it? That makes it OK. You can swim, so America is great again.

Or something.

[janterry]

2. Good spot for a Trump hotel

Put your money where your mouth is, Donnie.

[dawg]

3. Perhaps, then, the Trump Organization would be interested in making an investment there.

A resort maybe. Or a golf course.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Sailed there a few years back and .......

found it very creepy. They can't bury the dead in the ground so the caskets sit above ground. In some places they are in the yards.
That place has always been an outlier. During the revolution the english used it as a base for their ships without any problems from the inhabitants.

[Vinca]

5. So Trump pretty much tells them to pound sand and I'll bet the 87% of the island population

that supported Dear Leader are still hopping up and down and clapping their hands about his wonderful leadership.

[Goodheart]

6. Those are dumbasses, to be sure. They have lots of company, though...

in places like Navarre FL, Bayou La Batre AL, Pass Christian MS, Morgan City LA, Galveston TX, Brunswick GA, Folly Beach SC, Ocracoke NC, etc. etc. etc. and on and on and on.