@@jarikinnunen1718 I'm not sure what this means but I suspect that this commenter doesn't know what a 'Scientific Theory' is. The 'Theory of Global Warming' (Climate Change is just one of the symptoms) is the best and most widely accepted explanation for the phenomena we observe and is understood and accepted by ALL scientists who apply the Scientific Method (which may exclude a few charlatans who work for fossil fuel lobbyists or who have political agendas to promote) and is also obvious to scientifically literate lay persons like myself.
For centuries islands have appeared and disappeared throughout the Chesapeake Bay. It’s a constantly changing environment. There were islands that were there hundreds of years ago that we’re gone well over 100 years ago.
I would guess that her real reason for buying a house on the water there is that she only believes right wing media, and thinks climate change is a hoax. She just didn't want to say that.
Climate change is gonna hit Americans real hard in the coming decades. Eventually folks are gonna have to admit they were wrong. Sea level rise could be a lot worse than mentioned in this video as well.
I've lived around factory towns. When the factory goes belly up, its like dropping a bomb on the town, only the cleanup and rebuilding never happens. The residents some of which have lived their entire lives in the town are told by the govt to suck it up and move. If someone can give me a good reason why is Smith Island deserves saving but places like Youngstown OH and Flint MI were left to rot I'm all ears.
@@jadabaudelaire118A majority of America would agree. All Blue states would agree. No more giving a Red state welfare money from Blue state tax dollars.
@@chasetongaI was born and raised on the mainland lol which they refused to say - Crisfield. It’s nuts how they’re MAGA - he’ll shut down ALL of that funding ASAP. And in the case, I agree. It’s ridiculous how much goes into supporting this strip of land just to keep these ppl from dealing with reality.
@@messengerguardiansparanorm8606 ...and more is being washed up to replace the "sinking". It's tidal land movement. Something we used to realize was normal and not freak out over.
@@aday1637 I think it's more like constant dredging of the bay to catch oysters, which causes the tides to displace more material than they would otherwise. We see it all over the world.
They don't give them cash. The contractors hired by the state get the money to work on the island. If the people that lived there got the money , the work would not get done.
Add a few inches .... at an increasing rate ...then add a storm surge to a king tide ...and you have feet of water powering through your houses. Check out the North sea flooding of Canvey island in the 1950s . There are places where Gia says she's not finished ...you can visit you Can stay a while but you really really don't belong .. You can build on piles and stilts or you can build on floating pontoons.. learn from the Dutch. But that forever home isn't going to stand a decade that high and on those stick foundations. 🫣😬🤷🏻🧙🏻♂️ and this is my area of Geology and Environment. But pumping out ground water oil or gas or damage the marshes and you sink faster. The answers probably a home that can be floated and moved ... 🧙🏻♂️🧐 King Canute tried teaching the people that whilst England ..was the small kingdom on The Angles.. you cannot fight the sea the tides and the weather.
You do realise that the island is not suffering sea level rise but it is sinking due to groundwater extraction, this is repeated in many coastal areas in the east and south coasts. As population has grown water extraction rapidly rose and this causes the land to sink. This is why sea level rise”miraculously” only hangs on the American coast….. physically impossible. So if you want to see the truth open your eyes and your mind, if that is possible. Don’t fall for a false narrative.
43 mil divided by 200 is 215,000 per person, not per household. Eventually they will need bailed out. I get loving where you're from. But at a cost to tax payers of 43 million so far? And that's not even to save them when the time comes.
Don't want government or to pay taxes, but willing to take "grants" (read: handouts). I wonder how they vote. /s I say leave them be. As the water rises, they can always pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
@@kmeadows100 It's not exactly the "mainlanders" who have contributed to climate change more than these folks-- it's corporations on the mainland who have, for the most part.
@@ryandorofy2306 Listening comprehension and simple problem solving isn't your strong suit eh? If you divide the money spend into the number of people in the island, you get over $200K (I rounded down).
The water is rising because the glaciers are melting and adding more water. It travels to even out. I know there is sand and dirt erosion too from the back and forth water.
@@arfriedman4577 no you're wrong. The island is eroding because that's what tidal lands do. You think centuries of daily tides, rainfall and storms isn't going to effect sedimentary lands?
...and YOU get to decide that? These people have literally declined Federal infrastructure money because they refuse to accept climate change. Dredging, and building of seawalls is not difficult, proper infrastructure could have saved this place decades ago.
They have lived on the island since 1600s. They respect and take care of the land and the bay. They don't polute like all the trash washing down the bay from Washington DC Baltimore.
I find that the “some” places where people shouldn’t live is on this planet is around most of other humans. Humans seem to be the most threat to other humans.. imo 🤔
These islands have been appearing and disappearing for many millennium. Marginal habitat taxpayers nor insurance company's should have to pay for their obstinate nostalgia.
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Everybody knows that. According to someone in this video, the sea is rising here more than in the rest of the sea. Just after that she said their island is sinking.
My lord people are so dumb these days. Let me guess climate change is fake? Guess what the hottest years on record are? 2024 is set to be the hottest year ever. And every year the record is broken. Polar ice is disappearing and that water goes someplace. Those who deny climate change truly show a lack of intelligence on a level that is truly unbelievable
The smart ones are the 20% who sold and left the island using nostalgia to sucker in city folk. This looks like its gonna play out just like Florida. (Talking about housing prices)
100 years ago only fishermen and millionaires had houses on beaches because they understood the dangers...now all beaches are packed...humanity has lost its mind.
Say what you will about Blue Washington State's corrupt climate tax system, the good (they/thems) in Olympia set a 100-yards behind the sand dunes building encroachment limit, and we still have reasonable home insurance rates. Mine is under $150 a year!
Both groups could afford to rebuild after storms because rich people had the $$ and the poor guys lived in shacks . Building permanent in a zone that isn’t is ridiculous. Don’t get me started on building on beaches
Erosion is always a problem for land on the water, and they're surrounded by it. I've seen that in Florida where entire neighborhoods were eventually eaten up by the water (I guess they were too poor to put up a sea wall or riprap). I also know of places where the land is sinking, usually because the water table under the land has been pumped out too much. So I can understand that too. But if what's happening in this island were caused by climate change and rising water, it would be affecting much more than one island, and I just don't see any difference in water levels in pictures of Liberty Island or any other island in the USA for the last 200 years.
You can easily look up that those Liberty Island photos going around social media are misleading - they don't tell you anything about actual water levels (for one thing, tidal variation there is about 5 feet). The reality is sea level in NY harbor typically increases 1 foot per 100 years, but it has risen half-a-foot since 1970 and is expected to rise another foot by 2050. A 2022 government report showed that the US coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century. One very important problem is that it means flooding happens faster, farther inland and more frequently as the water level rises. I live in a harbor town and it is blatantly obvious that there is a growing problem even now. Kenneth Miller, distinguished professor and graduate program director at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers, told the Associated Press last year: “The rise of sea-level in the past century is insidious because it is slow, but the total effects add up." Dr. William Sweet, NOAA's expert on coastal flooding risk, told Newsweek two days ago that: "Episodic flooding could become extremely damaging and a major concern unless we do something. Simple full moon tides, changes in prevailing winds in many locations cause what we call here at NOAA high tide flooding. It could be sunny out, no storms, but a lot of the towns are starting to be affected by water in the streets, water coming up out of stormwater systems, and pooling up in communities. And that's going to happen more frequently, and that's going to be by 2050 with about a foot of sea level rise. "And a lot of these East and Gulf Coast communities, the type of flooding that's occurring now, 5 or 10 days per year or more in some of these communities, it's going to become just that much deeper and more severe in terms of impacts." This guy is a serious and dedicated PhD oceanographer who, among other things, co-leads the Defense Department group that tries to get ahead of coastal issues that impact our national security, infrastructure and our way of life.
Many coastal people will be "insuranced out" and will forced to move. Insurance companies have raised rates well beyond YoY cost of living because of the increased frequency of 100yr storms.
@@Deontjie Can't wait until Elon and Vivek stop payment on all that gov't waste. Deny those federal claims and force those red state rich folks to move inland. LOL
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"as sea levels rise" Strange that the sea levels would rise in a Maryland island and no where else in the world. Or maybe someone is lying to us and this is beach erosion. Go to 8:55 of the video to get the first of the truth. Notice the truth is not like the title of this video at all.....
Rising sea levels are happening all over the world and some countries like Tuvalu in the South Pacific are almost completely underwater now. Pacific Islanders are some of the first climate refugees and have been forced to abandon their homes.
Is the sea level rising or is the island eroding away? Watching more than halfway through and I’m realizing this is not sea level rise. Bad propaganda bro.
@@federicofrancescebut it's not. Scientists say it will be over 100+ years before any noticable sea level rise happens, but the media is pushing the green agenda for other reasons. The sea eroding land is not the sea level rising
So many comments here lack empathy. There is a history here, not unlike Venice or the Netherlands. Yes, odds are against them, but so few today have roots the way these islanders do, and there are not too many, like them, who can't be bought. I respect their spirit and grit.
People have very little empathy for the poor; that is not uncommon. Venice and the Netherlands have used wealth building businesses to change their situation. These people are a dying breed not because of climate change, but because their lack of education. This becomes exponential because their industry of hand catching seafood is dying because commercial fishing has been industrialized for 3-4 decades and they have not adopted it. All the smart people left Smith Island a generation ago.
@@vuho7832 ...but they have literally been warned for 3-4 generations. Not years, GENERATIONS. No one feels sorry for typewriter repairmen, why feel sorry for people that work in a dying industry? Their labor was replaced by industrialized fishing in developing nations in the 1970's. Do you also defend American Call center workers that lost their jobs to India in the 1990's?
@@user-f5xt2op9t What are you on about? Fisherman in Maine and Louisiana use the same fishing techniques. The problem isn't industrialisation, it's Chinese price dumping. And the fact that their island is being eroded by nature has nothing to do with their education. So what the hell are you on about? The hate against these people mainly stems from the fact that they are religious Christians. So, they are viewed as backward country bumpinks by city dwellers like yourself. I for one think that their community looks absolutely beautiful and the people appeared to be very nice and kind.
The sea IS also rising, by half an inch per year, going back at least a couple of decades. You and MAGA can ignore US NOAA, you can't ignore all the other countries measuring their own shore levels.
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I recently watched Peter Santenello visit and spend a day with a native fisherman. I can see that it would be difficult to give up a way of life these people love.
Same is happening in NZ. People hope that it will happen in their lifetime. I am 75 and I could probably live out my remaining right on the beach. But then, 100 year storms every two years now?
I've been there. It's a special place. When it feels like home, a place you can't just find anywhere, and your ancestors walked the same roads you walk, and the sense of community is so strong, you can't just walk away.
You can walk away when it takes 43 million just to make it so you can live on NATURE that wants to naturally take its course. and they’ve been warned for 5 generations apparently. You can’t perform magic on nature taking its course it’s a damn shame they’re so self involved.
It’s Erosion since the 1600s that’s losing their land. 400 years of twice daily tides, heavy rains and storms, flooding, have eroded away the soil as we all know tidal lands are fluid and soft. It’s inevitable that this happened. The water isn’t rising. The island is eroding. $43 million to save the island for how long? If you have seen them replace beaches with dredged sand you know it erodes sometimes in months. It’s going to be interesting to see what they do.
I grew up on the bay not far from Smith Island. I watched some beaches go from large and wide to nothing over a span of 50 years. Also watched other beaches appear, from basically nowhere. And GROW into giants. This is a natural ebb and flow of the waterway.
@@matthewholzmueller6292 Exactly....Sea level rise has been happening since the last ice age subsided...Sea level rise is not noticeable in a human lifespan.
@@robbieevans6536 So... You just don't understand climate change or you didn't listen when this video was playing or you deny climate change or a combination of?
The sea level is not rising, the land is eroding due to the natural cycle of tides and currents. Sell your house now, or wait for the insurance to pay out. I'm not sad that rich people are losing their isolated and exclusive vacation homes.
ITs both. Climate change is real. Polar ice is melting. 2024 is on check to be the hottest year ever recorded. CO2 levels are higher than they have been since the Permian and then sea levels were extremely higher.
@@VelveteenRabbit77that’s not what happens. It is rising everywhere. Islands that are disappearing are sometimes basically even at sea level. You probably live in a place that is higher. Just because the oceans there doesn’t mean you live AT sea level. Climate change is real. Polar ice is melting. 2024 is going to be the hottest year on record. CO2 levels haven’t been this high since the Permian age and back then and ocean levels were far higher. So if ice keeps melting it will be the same way.
The mainland they keep speaking of is Crisfield - my hometown, born and raised - lots of people know of Crisfield. Like many others, I too live across the Bay Bridge (DMV area) and visit often. The school boat leaves out at 5:45 a.m. arrives 40-45 minutes later to an awaiting school bus; departs at 5:00 p.m. Sometimes, if the water is too choppy or icy - they miss school. It’s all up to the Captain. Forever, they road bikes - it use to be a big thing to donate your bike or parts to the islanders (that’s what we call them). They shop in Crisfield by boat too (it’s now $20 each way) and it was (probably still a thing) courtesy to schedule your shopping around their beginning of the month shop. Funny, how they mention the buyout. During Crisfield’s buyout period, they FORCED several families out of their homes - threaten with take this money or not, we’re tearing down your homes - and they did. Some moved out of town, others into the projects. Which they’re trying to move them from because, the projects are across from the beloved marina and now they see their oof. Mind you, a stretch of the homes (on 4th Street) looked just like many of the homes in downtown Annapolis - exterior wood layered with paint, quaint with low ceilings etc. and are raved about and rented or sold for top dollar. Also, if you meet a black person in town with those last names - they’re ALL related. It’s literally - the white Evans and the black Evans; the white Somers and the black Somers - Wards are common too. For the most part, the island residency stayed white, while Crisfield became intermixed with bi-racial households with stepfathers (yes, marriage is huge there). It was nothing to see black moms get money from white men (the daddy) at the wharf whose kids oddly favored. I shocked myself when I realized the ebb and flow of my little town. There may have been a black person or native there but I don’t recall it being a ‘family’.
I was in Crisfield during COVID. I went into the ferry office, wearing a mask, and they said we don't wear masks here. Big trump sign on the wall.That's the kind of people who live there and on Smith Island.
Well I hat to break it to you, but everywhere humans live, it was conquered land. That's just how the world worked. Either be strong enough to defend the land you've conquered or lose it to someone strong enough to conquer you. This concept isn't exclusive to just white people. Who knows if native americans took the land from someone else, they never documented their guilt. And imagine if Europe never conquered it first. I'm sure the world would be much better off if the Chinese or Russia took it. Someone was going to take it. Do you think they'd have casinos and reservations if the Chinese took it?
It always amaze me how these sea level alarmist think the sea levels only rise in select places, in Florida these same alarmist think the sea level only rises in Miami but not in Key West or Daytona Fl. all because the streets flood in Miami after a hard rain or a King tide.
Tangier was going through this, ten years ago. I can't say that Tangier was ever beautiful, though. I really liked the island, the food, and their dialect or accents being very unique.
I visited there when a friend was hired to help a student with a project there on preservinga record of their culture. Especially their church songs and music. loved it! The people are great. They were warm to us, fed us, and invited us to come back. One of their culinary specialties is the 8 layer Smith Island Cake. You have to try it. It will always be a special memory for me.
The island is about 20 minutes away from my slip and I have been out there once and did not bother to tie up. I have talked to a lot of people in this area and the predominate theory is the islands are sinking but the Chesapeake water level is not rising. You can’t convince those individuals that their theory is incorrect. Why would anyone change their outlook when money is being handed to them.
There was a little island by our house It was a salt flat No one thought they could live on it down here That would be crazy Yet 200 people live on a similar island Just nuts
Sea level is rising everywhere. NASA has been tracking this with satellites for 30 years, check out the project, it's very cool: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-years-of-sea-level-rise
43 million in grants instead of 1 million set aside by the state to get people to move - and never return - are numbers that are speaking very, very loudly. Impressive!
Sea levels rising? The beach I went to at five years old on the Atlantic Ocean was in the exact same place when I went sixty-five years later. Their didn't even seem to have been any beach erosion either. That surprised me because our local beaches on the lake are long gone.
I have been living in Gordons Bay, South Africa for 60 years. Surfing, sailing and diving. And the sea here has not risen a mm. Not counting spring tides.
The elevation of Galveston Island was artificially raised after a devastating hurricane in the early 1900s. Why couldn't the same remediation be undertaken on Smith Island, along with barriers or something to minimize erosion of the shoreline?
I live in Marylands eastern shore. I have no idea why we continue to waste millions of tax dollars to preserve these remote islands for just a hand full of people who are living in the past. Time to move on please.
Smith island has always been susceptible to weather. It has been a concern since I was born. Stop pushing climate nonsense. It's several feet above sea-level. Been that way for a very long time.
43 million down the drain with who knows how much else to be wasted. That could have about paid for a new community in a suitable location instead. Set out a new program that is a standing offer for people who already live there at the time of the program's inception to leave one time with a payout to help them move, and otherwise walk away from the matter. Let them choose when to leave, but stop wasting money on enabling pointless stupidity.
The oceans are not rising. They have been checking the harbor levels in Stockholm for several hundred years. It’s not changed. You can go look at the limestone formations jutting out of the ocean around the Philippines and see that the water has been lapping the same area for centuries.
These islands have been sinking forever. I grew up on an island in the Chesapeake. The soil is a slimy black mud that is more like quick sand than dirt. You step out in the water and sink down immediately. And that mud is the reason for the marine life, that thrives on it's riches. Without bulk heads (suring) around the edges the soil leeches out into the water with each rain. There has been NO increase in the height of the water, ever. The land we lived on was at sea level and it's the same as it was 75 years ago when I was a child. We had piling with wood stretched out on the piles to prevent wake, wave, rain from dissolving and washing the soil away. As a result the waterways require constant dredging to allow the draft of boats to move through without bottoming out. Nothing has changed except the grifters in government trying to brainwash it's citizens into a state of fear over everything. For fear can be used to control people.
Yes, it is. Born and raised in Crisfield. Interesting combo - crabs and guns, huh? I usually see crabs and our sunsets or boats - first time seeing guns but oh well.
The state should not be wasting money shoring up property that has no future but to end up under water. If private insurance isn't affordable because of the high risk, I hope the government doesn't step in and provide it. The rest of us should not be on the hook to bail out people who take high risks, like buying a home that scientists say does not have a high probability of lasting very long.
Smith Island is sinking. "As the populations have increased in Maryland we are pulling more water out all the time [of aquifers], and when you pull the water out the land starts to fall down because the water was helping to hold it up, so you get this slow sinking in addition to the water rising from sea level rise,” said Gussie Maguire, a Maryland Environmental Scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Australia/ One might say - its not worth spending money on, But- one thing that's been lost & costs a lot - is the value of village life, where people support each other- that is priceless.
I lived on the Eastern Shore for 8 years. The bay has been changing since long before mankind showed up. Poplar Island, Tangier Island, and James Island all lost 75-90% of their area from when they were first occupied by Europeans until 1940. Poplar Island is down to a man made creation. Smith Island has been relatively lucky due to its location, less tidal erosion..
True, but the rate of change has been accelerated sine 1860 (the Industrial Revolution and beginning of burning fossil fuels) SO if you are a climate change denier, then you have lots of education to catch up on.
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Thank so much for doing this segment on my home state I was tempted and have been tempted too purchase land and build in tylerton or ewell but I wish the governor would step up and help with the erosion.
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You can talk about mother nature- however, building your house on sand isn’t wise.
It`s like climate theories, did build on quick sand.
It has more to do with weather manipulation to get what they want. Making land unlivable to move us to 15 min. Living.
more than 4 feet HA HA HA RISE Smokin some good stuff on that island
They are all full of it. Your water rise is going to be 4' but we will stay. They know perfectly well not going to happen anytime soon.
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I'm not sure what this means but I suspect that this commenter doesn't know what a 'Scientific Theory' is. The 'Theory of Global Warming' (Climate Change is just one of the symptoms) is the best and most widely accepted explanation for the phenomena we observe and is understood and accepted by ALL scientists who apply the Scientific Method (which may exclude a few charlatans who work for fossil fuel lobbyists or who have political agendas to promote) and is also obvious to scientifically literate lay persons like myself.
Been there since 1608. 60 minutes should show the oldest maps available and compare them with today's.
yup... more liberal woke progressive fear mongering BS
should have moved 200 years ago. Dunnies.
Why would they want real proof. The whole east coast is sinking.
$43M to preserve way of life for 200 people ??? 😲😕😳. I’m floored
you forgot about the kickbacks. Then it makes sense
What kickbacks? who gets them? I'm curious as a marylander
@@phdonme1 Wake up. You're country is, and has always been one big scam
Then you have never heard of the military industrial complex?
Eisenhower speech?
They shouldn’t ignore the fact that the other island suffered the same fate and everyone had to move .
The need for delusion runs deep.
Holland island
Maybe a few $million spent on stone breakwater would have saved the other island.
Brainwashed into thinking they had to move. Bulk heads would have prevented the erosion and "sinking". Simple bulk heads.
They will be dead long before the island actually goes under
For centuries islands have appeared and disappeared throughout the Chesapeake Bay. It’s a constantly changing environment. There were islands that were there hundreds of years ago that we’re gone well over 100 years ago.
And this is going to be the next one.
That lady is delusional to think her grandkids will be in that house on the water.
I would guess that her real reason for buying a house on the water there is that she only believes right wing media, and thinks climate change is a hoax. She just didn't want to say that.
Houseboat? 😄
I know the people on Smith Island have more sense than some of the negative nitwits commenting here.
they will be in the house IN the water.
Climate change is gonna hit Americans real hard in the coming decades. Eventually folks are gonna have to admit they were wrong. Sea level rise could be a lot worse than mentioned in this video as well.
The government shouldn’t be shelling money into this
I've lived around factory towns. When the factory goes belly up, its like dropping a bomb on the town, only the cleanup and rebuilding never happens. The residents some of which have lived their entire lives in the town are told by the govt to suck it up and move.
If someone can give me a good reason why is Smith Island deserves saving but places like Youngstown OH and Flint MI were left to rot I'm all ears.
@@rook1196Frankly, same goes for all the re building of Florida after each hurricane..
@@jadabaudelaire118A majority of America would agree. All Blue states would agree. No more giving a Red state welfare money from Blue state tax dollars.
@@chasetongaI was born and raised on the mainland lol which they refused to say - Crisfield. It’s nuts how they’re MAGA - he’ll shut down ALL of that funding ASAP. And in the case, I agree. It’s ridiculous how much goes into supporting this strip of land just to keep these ppl from dealing with reality.
Not sure what you know about Maryland, but it's pretty damn blue.
It's sinking they said 30 years ago.
Yeah, and that hasn't changed. It's STILL sinking.
@@messengerguardiansparanorm8606 Lol...Sinking?
@@messengerguardiansparanorm8606what’s taking it so long
@@messengerguardiansparanorm8606 ...and more is being washed up to replace the "sinking". It's tidal land movement. Something we used to realize was normal and not freak out over.
@@aday1637 I think it's more like constant dredging of the bay to catch oysters, which causes the tides to displace more material than they would otherwise.
We see it all over the world.
$43 million for 200 people. When do I get my 200,000 plus?
They don't give them cash. The contractors hired by the state get the money to work on the island. If the people that lived there got the money , the work would not get done.
@stevenread5473 your right. When is Maryland gonna invest that type of money into my area?
I think we should send them 20,000 Haitians to help.
@@elimel8223 I agree. Adjusted per capita it's a lot of money.
$300k is plenty enough to buy a home somewhere else.
Smith Island is subsiding and eroding. There is no appreciable change in sea levels there since it was settled by Europeans.
LMAO=With rising ocean Temps add 2 feet of sea level-another 2 feet for melting ice caps.
Welcome to the ANNIHILATION GENERATION.
Add a few inches .... at an increasing rate ...then add a storm surge to a king tide ...and you have feet of water powering through your houses. Check out the North sea flooding of Canvey island in the 1950s .
There are places where Gia
says she's not finished ...you can visit you
Can stay a while but you really really don't belong ..
You can build on piles and stilts or you can build on floating pontoons.. learn from the Dutch. But that forever home isn't going to stand a decade that high and on those stick foundations. 🫣😬🤷🏻🧙🏻♂️
and this is my area of Geology and Environment.
But pumping out ground water oil or gas or damage the marshes and you sink faster.
The answers probably a home that can be floated and moved ... 🧙🏻♂️🧐
King Canute tried teaching the people that whilst England ..was the small kingdom on The Angles.. you cannot fight the sea the tides and the weather.
I believe you incorrectly spelled the word stolen
@BeHope113 Did the most recent Indians steal it from the tribes they displaced?
@@toomanymarys7355 Can you actually answer that question or are you just making up something to serve your narrative?
"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know..."
So profound. Lol
Trump voters for example.
@ The next 4 years are going to be fun. I’m going to love seeing people like you brought to heel whether you like it or not.
You do realise that the island is not suffering sea level rise but it is sinking due to groundwater extraction, this is repeated in many coastal areas in the east and south coasts. As population has grown water extraction rapidly rose and this causes the land to sink. This is why sea level rise”miraculously” only hangs on the American coast….. physically impossible. So if you want to see the truth open your eyes and your mind, if that is possible. Don’t fall for a false narrative.
@@Brap-pl2meWho are you to bring even a dog to its knees? The next four years, I promise you that God will humble you.
43 mil divided by 200 is 215,000 per person, not per household. Eventually they will need bailed out. I get loving where you're from. But at a cost to tax payers of 43 million so far? And that's not even to save them when the time comes.
Don't want government or to pay taxes, but willing to take "grants" (read: handouts). I wonder how they vote. /s
I say leave them be. As the water rises, they can always pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
its not like theres a shortage of land on the main island either..
@@kmeadows100 It's not exactly the "mainlanders" who have contributed to climate change more than these folks-- it's corporations on the mainland who have, for the most part.
@@kmeadows100It’s not tricky. Condemn the island, buy out the landowners, end of story.
@@kmeadows100 The carbon footprint of their boats would beg to differ
Ridiculous to give that island any of our tax money. If those fools want to stay on that island, let them deal (and pay) for their consequences.
I’d rather pay for this then missiles overseas
It's amazing how much you hate your fellow Americans......
@@ryandorofy2306 Another person that failed math. 200K for every person in America is 70 TRILLION dollars.
@@HKim0072 what are you talking about
@@ryandorofy2306 Listening comprehension and simple problem solving isn't your strong suit eh?
If you divide the money spend into the number of people in the island, you get over $200K (I rounded down).
The sea is not rising, the island is sinking.
The water is rising because the glaciers are melting and adding more water. It travels to even out.
I know there is sand and dirt erosion too from the back and forth water.
@@arfriedman4577😂
@@arfriedman4577 no you're wrong. The island is eroding because that's what tidal lands do. You think centuries of daily tides, rainfall and storms isn't going to effect sedimentary lands?
@squalie9 I understand there is erosion too where the water moves the sand and dirt. I lived on 2 different islands as a kid.
That’s the truth!
"We learn to adapt"
Can you breathe underwater?
😂😂😂 right!
lol 😂
Not yet :-(
This ain't Waterworld, and she isn't Kevin Costner
@@redsoxrob83 her island will be Waterworld, and she still won't be Kevin Costner.
There are some places on this planet where people should not live.
...and YOU get to decide that?
These people have literally declined Federal infrastructure money because they refuse to accept climate change.
Dredging, and building of seawalls is not difficult, proper infrastructure could have saved this place decades ago.
The entire planet.
They have lived on the island since 1600s. They respect and take care of the land and the bay. They don't polute like all the trash washing down the bay from Washington DC Baltimore.
I find that the “some” places where people shouldn’t live is on this planet is around most of other humans. Humans seem to be the most threat to other humans.. imo 🤔
@@shoresharp8349 Except when they flush their toilets and wash their dishes.
These islands have been appearing and disappearing for many millennium. Marginal habitat taxpayers nor insurance company's should have to pay for their obstinate nostalgia.
Why would they pay for it? The so called change is happening so slowly, everyone alive now will be dead by then anyway.
Correct, this island has been under water before many times.
I'm a Maryland native and we have so many beautiful landscapes I would hate to see it completely eroded.
Tucker Carlson will head the new Department of Spanking All Women DSAW will use belts and paddles!!!All women to report for 20 minuet spankings twice a week or face years in jail!
Are there any people of color living there?
It’s an erosion problem not a climate change problem for those with their eyes closed
Everybody knows that. According to someone in this video, the sea is rising here more than in the rest of the sea. Just after that she said their island is sinking.
According to gore Florida should be under water lmao
@@white5_romeo Gore said that 25 years ago with his 8000 sq ft houses!!!
It was a landfill that is now sinking.. move
My lord people are so dumb these days. Let me guess climate change is fake? Guess what the hottest years on record are? 2024 is set to be the hottest year ever. And every year the record is broken. Polar ice is disappearing and that water goes someplace. Those who deny climate change truly show a lack of intelligence on a level that is truly unbelievable
The smart ones are the 20% who sold and left the island using nostalgia to sucker in city folk.
This looks like its gonna play out just like Florida. (Talking about housing prices)
They might not want the money now but give it 50 years.
10 or 20, tops.
they'll be dead in 50 years
Al Gore said things would be under water 20 years ago?
I’d put my money on 5 years, it really only takes 1 hurricane or flood.
@@Patrick-yh5yd - Quote, with link?
100 years ago only fishermen and millionaires had houses on beaches because they understood the dangers...now all beaches are packed...humanity has lost its mind.
Say what you will about Blue Washington State's corrupt climate tax system, the good (they/thems) in Olympia set a 100-yards behind the sand dunes building encroachment limit, and we still have reasonable home insurance rates. Mine is under $150 a year!
Both groups could afford to rebuild after storms because rich people had the $$ and the poor guys lived in shacks . Building permanent in a zone that isn’t is ridiculous. Don’t get me started on building on beaches
Erosion is always a problem for land on the water, and they're surrounded by it. I've seen that in Florida where entire neighborhoods were eventually eaten up by the water (I guess they were too poor to put up a sea wall or riprap). I also know of places where the land is sinking, usually because the water table under the land has been pumped out too much. So I can understand that too. But if what's happening in this island were caused by climate change and rising water, it would be affecting much more than one island, and I just don't see any difference in water levels in pictures of Liberty Island or any other island in the USA for the last 200 years.
Exactly!!!
Common sense is a very rare commodity these days.
But this is a chance to sell CLIMATE CHANGE again , l won’t watch their propaganda
Look beyond the U.S. maybe your eyes will finally open😂😂
@reneesimerale
Look beyond your gut and maybe you'll finally see your toes.
Baby steps honey 🙄
You can easily look up that those Liberty Island photos going around social media are misleading - they don't tell you anything about actual water levels (for one thing, tidal variation there is about 5 feet). The reality is sea level in NY harbor typically increases 1 foot per 100 years, but it has risen half-a-foot since 1970 and is expected to rise another foot by 2050. A 2022 government report showed that the US coastline will see sea levels rise in the next 30 years by as much as they did in the entire 20th century.
One very important problem is that it means flooding happens faster, farther inland and more frequently as the water level rises. I live in a harbor town and it is blatantly obvious that there is a growing problem even now. Kenneth Miller, distinguished professor and graduate program director at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers, told the Associated Press last year: “The rise of sea-level in the past century is insidious because it is slow, but the total effects add up."
Dr. William Sweet, NOAA's expert on coastal flooding risk, told Newsweek two days ago that: "Episodic flooding could become extremely damaging and a major concern unless we do something. Simple full moon tides, changes in prevailing winds in many locations cause what we call here at NOAA high tide flooding. It could be sunny out, no storms, but a lot of the towns are starting to be affected by water in the streets, water coming up out of stormwater systems, and pooling up in communities. And that's going to happen more frequently, and that's going to be by 2050 with about a foot of sea level rise.
"And a lot of these East and Gulf Coast communities, the type of flooding that's occurring now, 5 or 10 days per year or more in some of these communities, it's going to become just that much deeper and more severe in terms of impacts."
This guy is a serious and dedicated PhD oceanographer who, among other things, co-leads the Defense Department group that tries to get ahead of coastal issues that impact our national security, infrastructure and our way of life.
I love that last woman's outlook... Live your best life for today, and hope for tomorrow. ❤
Maybe they should “PLAN” for tomorrow.
Many coastal people will be "insuranced out" and will forced to move. Insurance companies have raised rates well beyond YoY cost of living because of the increased frequency of 100yr storms.
Everyone I know in south Florida has doubled premiums this year
insurance do they have cars there i dought theres alot of accidents of they do insurance should be cheap
🤔
I have heard that the US government pays for the enormous cost of rebuilding your house, if it was damaged by the sea. Saw it on a John Stossel video.
@@Deontjie Can't wait until Elon and Vivek stop payment on all that gov't waste. Deny those federal claims and force those red state rich folks to move inland. LOL
DELUSION IS BLISS 🫠
Tucker Carlson will head the new Department of Spanking All Women DSAW will use belts and paddles!!!All women to report for 20 minuet spankings twice a week or face years in jail!
And "bliss" is fun. So what's the problem?
I lived on the coasts of Alaska for 40+ years..as a commercial fisherman. The Oceans are not rising, Erosion is taking its toll.
exactly... just another thing they try and use as something else, and through fear mongering try and control us
"as sea levels rise" Strange that the sea levels would rise in a Maryland island and no where else in the world. Or maybe someone is lying to us and this is beach erosion. Go to 8:55 of the video to get the first of the truth. Notice the truth is not like the title of this video at all.....
It is across the world, all coastal communities are having to react / adapt.
Global sea level is rising at an accelerating rate due to man-made global warming. It is up to about 1/5th of an inch a year.
They never said it's happening only here. This affects all coastal and low-lying areas all over the world.
it's flat!
Rising sea levels are happening all over the world and some countries like Tuvalu in the South Pacific are almost completely underwater now. Pacific Islanders are some of the first climate refugees and have been forced to abandon their homes.
Is the sea level rising or is the island eroding away? Watching more than halfway through and I’m realizing this is not sea level rise. Bad propaganda bro.
Island erosion. The soil is nothing but marshlands. They may have survived for generations, but so did the Phoenician Empire until...
It can be both. They are not mutually exclusive
@@federicofrancescebut it's not. Scientists say it will be over 100+ years before any noticable sea level rise happens, but the media is pushing the green agenda for other reasons. The sea eroding land is not the sea level rising
So many comments here lack empathy. There is a history here, not unlike Venice or the Netherlands. Yes, odds are against them, but so few today have roots the way these islanders do, and there are not too many, like them, who can't be bought. I respect their spirit and grit.
People have very little empathy for the poor; that is not uncommon. Venice and the Netherlands have used wealth building businesses to change their situation.
These people are a dying breed not because of climate change, but because their lack of education. This becomes exponential because their industry of hand catching seafood is dying because commercial fishing has been industrialized for 3-4 decades and they have not adopted it.
All the smart people left Smith Island a generation ago.
My heart goes out to these folks. I can't even imagine losing my home, my history, and my entire way of life. Now, please - MOVE...
@@Oshiiiiiiiiiiii Not true. Look at all the climate change deniers in the comments defending the profits of oil company CEO's!
@@vuho7832 ...but they have literally been warned for 3-4 generations. Not years, GENERATIONS.
No one feels sorry for typewriter repairmen, why feel sorry for people that work in a dying industry? Their labor was replaced by industrialized fishing in developing nations in the 1970's.
Do you also defend American Call center workers that lost their jobs to India in the 1990's?
@@user-f5xt2op9t What are you on about? Fisherman in Maine and Louisiana use the same fishing techniques. The problem isn't industrialisation, it's Chinese price dumping. And the fact that their island is being eroded by nature has nothing to do with their education. So what the hell are you on about? The hate against these people mainly stems from the fact that they are religious Christians. So, they are viewed as backward country bumpinks by city dwellers like yourself. I for one think that their community looks absolutely beautiful and the people appeared to be very nice and kind.
The sea is not rising. The island is eroding away. They need to plan on leaving while they can.
The sea IS also rising, by half an inch per year, going back at least a couple of decades. You and MAGA can ignore US NOAA, you can't ignore all the other countries measuring their own shore levels.
Been in Maryland for 30 years, never heard of this place
The Eastern Shore.!......Smith Island....St Michaels......Gibson Island......Kent Island......Cambridge, ....Crisfield,....etc
It's on the Eastern Shore
I remember learning to crab and crying because I was too young to take the family boat to Smith Island. 🥲 Maryland childhoods are magical. 😊
Tucker Carlson will head the new Department of Spanking All Women DSAW will use belts and paddles!!!All women to report for 20 minuet spankings twice a week or face years in jail!
So the sea level is only rising near THAT island? Ya think people will probably buy that? 😂.
You’ve missed the point. Wise guy🤪
You are correct, wise man.
They will.
Remember the masks?
The people liable for this video are just ignorant blind highly paid propagandist.
I recently watched Peter Santenello visit and spend a day with a native fisherman. I can see that it would be difficult to give up a way of life these people love.
Funny how they keep saying the sea is rising, but they keep building hotels right on the sea.😂
I dont think the people building the hotels and the people warning of sea level rise are the same people.
Yeah every climate scientist in the world is lying to you, Mr, conservative
It’s return on investment, as long as they can make a return in the time available that’s OK.
Same is happening in NZ. People hope that it will happen in their lifetime. I am 75 and I could probably live out my remaining right on the beach. But then, 100 year storms every two years now?
And the Obama's keep paying millions for oceanfront properties.
Plymouth Rock still sits in the same spot it did 400 years ago. The water hasn't risen 1 in
Nice story. Sustaining one's 'home' is clearly very human. But migrating to opportunity is even more so.
At least someone here has a balanced opinion.
I've been there. It's a special place. When it feels like home, a place you can't just find anywhere, and your ancestors walked the same roads you walk, and the sense of community is so strong, you can't just walk away.
they will float away
Sounds like a cult to me. 😇😸
Better to walk before you have to swim.
Well, soon, they might have to swim away.
You can walk away when it takes 43 million just to make it so you can live on NATURE that wants to naturally take its course. and they’ve been warned for 5 generations apparently. You can’t perform magic on nature taking its course it’s a damn shame they’re so self involved.
10:50 POST THEIR WEBSITES!!!
It’s Erosion since the 1600s that’s losing their land. 400 years of twice daily tides, heavy rains and storms, flooding, have eroded away the soil as we all know tidal lands are fluid and soft. It’s inevitable that this happened. The water isn’t rising. The island is eroding. $43 million to save the island for how long? If you have seen them replace beaches with dredged sand you know it erodes sometimes in months. It’s going to be interesting to see what they do.
I grew up on the bay not far from Smith Island. I watched some beaches go from large and wide to nothing over a span of 50 years. Also watched other beaches appear, from basically nowhere. And GROW into giants. This is a natural ebb and flow of the waterway.
island is sinking. just like island off corpus cristi, everything that isent bedrock is sinking (close to the coast ) this is geology 101
@@matthewholzmueller6292 Exactly....Sea level rise has been happening since the last ice age subsided...Sea level rise is not noticeable in a human lifespan.
It's God's will....
@@robbieevans6536
So... You just don't understand climate change or you didn't listen when this video was playing or you deny climate change or a combination of?
220 people live on Smith Island.
The sea level is not rising, the land is eroding due to the natural cycle of tides and currents. Sell your house now, or wait for the insurance to pay out. I'm not sad that rich people are losing their isolated and exclusive vacation homes.
U R partially right BUT the ocean is rising. Many Pacific Islanders have already abandoned their islands.
These aren't rich people's vacation homes just so you know.
@@shirleyandrews1152 I like by an ocean. Water cant just rise on one little spot in the world and not others
ITs both. Climate change is real. Polar ice is melting. 2024 is on check to be the hottest year ever recorded. CO2 levels are higher than they have been since the Permian and then sea levels were extremely higher.
@@VelveteenRabbit77that’s not what happens. It is rising everywhere. Islands that are disappearing are sometimes basically even at sea level. You probably live in a place that is higher. Just because the oceans there doesn’t mean you live AT sea level. Climate change is real. Polar ice is melting. 2024 is going to be the hottest year on record. CO2 levels haven’t been this high since the Permian age and back then and ocean levels were far higher. So if ice keeps melting it will be the same way.
The mainland they keep speaking of is Crisfield - my hometown, born and raised - lots of people know of Crisfield. Like many others, I too live across the Bay Bridge (DMV area) and visit often. The school boat leaves out at 5:45 a.m. arrives 40-45 minutes later to an awaiting school bus; departs at 5:00 p.m. Sometimes, if the water is too choppy or icy - they miss school. It’s all up to the Captain. Forever, they road bikes - it use to be a big thing to donate your bike or parts to the islanders (that’s what we call them). They shop in Crisfield by boat too (it’s now $20 each way) and it was (probably still a thing) courtesy to schedule your shopping around their beginning of the month shop.
Funny, how they mention the buyout. During Crisfield’s buyout period, they FORCED several families out of their homes - threaten with take this money or not, we’re tearing down your homes - and they did. Some moved out of town, others into the projects. Which they’re trying to move them from because, the projects are across from the beloved marina and now they see their oof. Mind you, a stretch of the homes (on 4th Street) looked just like many of the homes in downtown Annapolis - exterior wood layered with paint, quaint with low ceilings etc. and are raved about and rented or sold for top dollar.
Also, if you meet a black person in town with those last names - they’re ALL related. It’s literally - the white Evans and the black Evans; the white Somers and the black Somers - Wards are common too. For the most part, the island residency stayed white, while Crisfield became intermixed with bi-racial households with stepfathers (yes, marriage is huge there). It was nothing to see black moms get money from white men (the daddy) at the wharf whose kids oddly favored. I shocked myself when I realized the ebb and flow of my little town. There may have been a black person or native there but I don’t recall it being a ‘family’.
I was in Crisfield during COVID. I went into the ferry office, wearing a mask, and they said we don't wear masks here. Big trump sign on the wall.That's the kind of people who live there and on Smith Island.
Why is that Black family did not live there.was it all white family.
This documentary made me fall in love with smith island. I may opt to retire there!!!
There’s no better place then place which is bringing that feeling of a happy childhood❤! I would love to visit !!!!🍀
Sorry to break it to you but, you weren't there first lmao.
They talking
“Native “ to the land 😂😂😂
That bs
it's a concept your lineage would never understand.
In-juns didnt live there
Well I hat to break it to you, but everywhere humans live, it was conquered land. That's just how the world worked. Either be strong enough to defend the land you've conquered or lose it to someone strong enough to conquer you. This concept isn't exclusive to just white people. Who knows if native americans took the land from someone else, they never documented their guilt. And imagine if Europe never conquered it first. I'm sure the world would be much better off if the Chinese or Russia took it. Someone was going to take it. Do you think they'd have casinos and reservations if the Chinese took it?
I'm sure this will be first on the list of priorities for the upcoming administation
They all voted for that orange idiot and will be severely disappointed.
doge!
Shannon’s words at the end of this video really struck a cord with me. Very well said and what a great way to think.
It always amaze me how these sea level alarmist think the sea levels only rise in select places, in Florida these same alarmist think the sea level only rises in Miami but not in
Key West or Daytona Fl. all because the streets flood in Miami after a hard rain or a King tide.
Beautiful part of the Bay. Same with Tangier Island, VA.
Wow really? You know this place? And you say it's beautiful
@blaskoxx4954 I live in Virginia and go over to the Eastern Shore a lot.
@@VASparky I agree. It’s a wonderful area around there.
Tangier was going through this, ten years ago. I can't say that Tangier was ever beautiful, though. I really liked the island, the food, and their dialect or accents being very unique.
@ I fished in two feet of crystal clear water, casting for small redfish this fall. It was beautiful to be out there enjoying nature.
Good grief, go to Venice, New Orleans, study, ask questions, don't get all dramatic about it.
all that money could help a lot of hungry children across the nation
Grow up. The sea level is not rising. The high tide mark on the dock where I started fishing in 1960 is exactly the same today.
Sea level is rising is because Smith Island is sinking like South Beach Miami
@@KingNewJersey Exactly.
Norfolk Virginia and crisfield Virginia are flooding more and more every year. Sea level is rising
@@dlight2669 Subsidence?
@@dlight2669 But it's Global warming ~ It's sinking ~ sandy and sand shifts.
I visited there when a friend was hired to help a student with a project there on preservinga record of their culture. Especially their church songs and music. loved it! The people are great. They were warm to us, fed us, and invited us to come back. One of their culinary specialties is the 8 layer Smith Island Cake. You have to try it. It will always be a special memory for me.
If you are going to have "Smith Island cake" you'd better get some soon.
The island is about 20 minutes away from my slip and I have been out there once and did not bother to tie up. I have talked to a lot of people in this area and the predominate theory is the islands are sinking but the Chesapeake water level is not rising. You can’t convince those individuals that their theory is incorrect. Why would anyone change their outlook when money is being handed to them.
You mean I can be paid as an individual for saying the islands are sinking but water levels are not rising ? Where do I sign up ? 😂
@@tthomas184 there was a house for sale there last year, I guess you missed out.
@@skipstalforce there will be more, trust me on this . I won't be buying. 🤠
@@tthomas184 good , cause I'd take you fishing if you did.
@skipstalforce it's OK, people who talk much, and know nothing don't suit me.
It's a shame but small towns are dying all over the country, all over the world. You can't save them all.
There was a little island by our house It was a salt flat No one thought they could live on it down here That would be crazy Yet 200 people live on a similar island Just nuts
A salt flat is a dried seabed with the mineral deposits exposed to open air. Literally the opposite of an island.
@ We had salt water and salt grass It’s what we called it in our area Are you that bored you have to dissect everything? Miserable being
Explain to me how sea level is rising at one small group of islands in the Chesapeake Bay and not elsewhere. The island is sinking.
Sea level is rising everywhere. NASA has been tracking this with satellites for 30 years, check out the project, it's very cool: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-years-of-sea-level-rise
Such a beautiful story and life, and wonderful message at the ending from a recently moved in resident❤
Subsidence is NOT sea level rise! This is idiocracy in practice.
43 million in grants instead of 1 million set aside by the state to get people to move - and never return - are numbers that are speaking very, very loudly. Impressive!
Sea levels rising? The beach I went to at five years old on the Atlantic Ocean was in the exact same place when I went sixty-five years later. Their didn't even seem to have been any beach erosion either. That surprised me because our local beaches on the lake are long gone.
I’ve lived in So FL for 50 years. Beaches haven’t changed a bit.
I have been living in Gordons Bay, South Africa for 60 years. Surfing, sailing and diving. And the sea here has not risen a mm. Not counting spring tides.
Well, it appears that your lake is rising.
Well done 60 minutes! We loved having you here!
60 Minutes does such a great job of asking the exact questions I would ask during the story!
I also live in South N.J. I would move there in a jiffy. I visited there years ago and fell in love with the Island.
I agree. Even a soon -to -be completely underwater island is better than Jersey.
The elevation of Galveston Island was artificially raised after a devastating hurricane in the early 1900s. Why couldn't the same remediation be undertaken on Smith Island, along with barriers or something to minimize erosion of the shoreline?
I thought Galveston was the largest and wealthiest community in TX in 1900. Far larger and wealthier than this island.
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I live in Marylands eastern shore. I have no idea why we continue to waste millions of tax dollars to preserve these remote islands for just a hand full of people who are living in the past.
Time to move on please.
The Official cake of Maryland is the Smith Island Chocolate Cake Prepared/baked in Crisfield MD.
I heard this in 2001 when Miami be under water by 2012 ...just getting old
Smith island has always been susceptible to weather. It has been a concern since I was born. Stop pushing climate nonsense. It's several feet above sea-level. Been that way for a very long time.
The sea isn’t rising. The land is sinking. Do better.
And the sky is falling. Right?
looks like a great community to be a part of.
A lot of ignorance there in one spot 🤔
@@catrashoo Why?
Don’t recognize this guy but he’s sure adopted the 60 Minutes dialect and inflection.
I had the pleasure of visiting here in the 70s with my Mom and church group. We enjoyed it and the food was great.
The people of the island are incredibly nice. I know. I was involved in providing medical care in the area for about 20 years. Great folks.
That's nice, but Mother Nature doesn't give a damn
43 million down the drain with who knows how much else to be wasted. That could have about paid for a new community in a suitable location instead. Set out a new program that is a standing offer for people who already live there at the time of the program's inception to leave one time with a payout to help them move, and otherwise walk away from the matter. Let them choose when to leave, but stop wasting money on enabling pointless stupidity.
I would love to live there.
The oceans are not rising. They have been checking the harbor levels in Stockholm for several hundred years. It’s not changed. You can go look at the limestone formations jutting out of the ocean around the Philippines and see that the water has been lapping the same area for centuries.
Have a look at the data, you might find it interesting: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150192/tracking-30-years-of-sea-level-rise
Lmao imagine living in a marsh/flood plain and being dumb founded, your house is sinking.
But but but.... the science 😂
These islands have been sinking forever. I grew up on an island in the Chesapeake. The soil is a slimy black mud that is more like quick sand than dirt. You step out in the water and sink down immediately. And that mud is the reason for the marine life, that thrives on it's riches. Without bulk heads (suring) around the edges the soil leeches out into the water with each rain. There has been NO increase in the height of the water, ever. The land we lived on was at sea level and it's the same as it was 75 years ago when I was a child. We had piling with wood stretched out on the piles to prevent wake, wave, rain from dissolving and washing the soil away. As a result the waterways require constant dredging to allow the draft of boats to move through without bottoming out. Nothing has changed except the grifters in government trying to brainwash it's citizens into a state of fear over everything. For fear can be used to control people.
Ugh..I miss having neighbors that friendly and hospitable.
So uniquely beautiful there. Wow
It's not the rise of sea water it's the shrunken coastal land
To each their own but $43M for 200 people, and turning down funding to move inland… crazy
Marylands Eastern Shore is amazing. We go over regularly for the best crabs and guns weekends.
Yes, it is. Born and raised in Crisfield. Interesting combo - crabs and guns, huh? I usually see crabs and our sunsets or boats - first time seeing guns but oh well.
The state should not be wasting money shoring up property that has no future but to end up under water. If private insurance isn't affordable because of the high risk, I hope the government doesn't step in and provide it. The rest of us should not be on the hook to bail out people who take high risks, like buying a home that scientists say does not have a high probability of lasting very long.
Oh, they spend money on way, way worse stuff. Lol This is a drop in the bucket.
When all the billionaires start panic selling their beachfront trophy homes, then I'll pay attention.
Didn't Bezos or Zuckerberg just sell a big mansion and build a bunker instead?
Smith Island is sinking. "As the populations have increased in Maryland we are pulling more water out all the time [of aquifers], and when you pull the water out the land starts to fall down because the water was helping to hold it up, so you get this slow sinking in addition to the water rising from sea level rise,” said Gussie Maguire, a Maryland Environmental Scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Finally. SCIENCE
Australia/ One might say - its not worth spending money on, But- one thing that's been lost & costs a lot - is the value of village life, where people support each other- that is priceless.
I lived on the Eastern Shore for 8 years. The bay has been changing since long before mankind showed up. Poplar Island, Tangier Island, and James Island all lost 75-90% of their area from when they were first occupied by Europeans until 1940. Poplar Island is down to a man made creation.
Smith Island has been relatively lucky due to its location, less tidal erosion..
True, but the rate of change has been accelerated sine 1860 (the Industrial Revolution and beginning of burning fossil fuels) SO if you are a climate change denier, then you have lots of education to catch up on.
The lady in the pink shirt seems like the sweetest and most genuine person in the world.
Tucker Carlson will head the new Department of Spanking All Women DSAW will use belts and paddles!!!All women to report for 20 minuet spankings twice a week or face years in jail!
Sea levels are NOT rising. Erosion is a real thing but to say the sea levels are rising is a flat out lie. I live a hour away from Smith Island.
I see the far-right climate denialists and greedy curmudgeons are well-represented in the comments alas.
Ive been living in Maryland since 1998 and never knew this place existed
Then why are the super rich building mansions there???
“We don’t have any crime.” I can see why.
We know where all the bodies are buried 😂
Marylander here…our eastern shore is so breathtakingly beautiful that it breaks your ❤ just a little bit to take it all in 🦀🦀🦀🦀
Miami has to pump out sea water from some neighborhoods during high tide.
Like they have for 50 years you mean?
@@MrLuumpy why you in denial about abrupt cc?
@@Jc-ms5vvbecause he is thinking the dem is trying to control them
Miami is sinking about 30mm a year. Sea level is rising about 3 mm year. Miami is sinking 10 times faster than sea level is rising.
@@MrLuumpy rofl at climate change deniers. sad to be conservative. ROFL .
Thank so much for doing this segment on my home state I was tempted and have been tempted too purchase land and build in tylerton or ewell but I wish the governor would step up and help with the erosion.
Sea levels are rising here and nowhere else... This is the dumbest thing I've watched in quite some time.