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.
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.
That lady was definitely confused on how things work. Of all the places to move. I guarantee she'll be the first Karen in line to complain about her entitlements when that shack washes away. Or the roads. Who cares if your house is on stilts if the rest of the island is gone.
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.
Yeah it's a tricky thing. On the one hand, this is tax payer money and that could be used to subsidize their move to less vulnerable areas of the mainland. However, these people have done far less to contribute to climate change than most "mainlanders" so maybe the taxpayers have a responsibility. I guess the main question is, "are we just spending money to delay the inevitable.
@@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.
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.
...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.
I dont feel bad for people who built homes on river beds, flood plains, barrier islands or cliff sides. I love the water but i dont need to live on top of it. Smh
Flood plain land and river bed land historically was the cheapest land available and was sold to poor people who couldn't afford anything better. Otoh, cliff sides and barrier islands homes were bought by the rich, who can afford losses. I do feel sorry for the poor, not so much for the rich.
@@tthomas184Except for the dum dum from Jersey. I can only imagine how miserable her kids are taking that school boat every morning at 5:45 a.m. LOL yeah, they’re calling her by name because the kids are late for the school boat, AGAIN😂
Come on. This island was settled in the 1600s. We’ve only about the climate change since the 1950s and most people thought we had lots more time left before the water would begin to eat up land. The drama of Climate Change is happening all over the world…. places that have never burned, never flooded etc. If you think this was a choice of where to settle, that choice was made generations ago. Blaming the people that live there now is ridiculous.
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?
It's not only the rising sea levels from melting ice caps but the isostatic pressure of the water on the sea bed. As the water level rises the sea bed lowers dragging the island with it.
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.
Some of you thst are saying let the island go have no heart! Smith Island MD and Tangier Island Virginia both have a history, most were born and raised there, their families are buried there. It is their home!
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)
I support these people and I'm not trying to be negative nancy here, but indigenous people did used to live on the island. So when they say it was 'first settled' by a European and that one guy says 'we were here first', that's not actually true. I do hope they can hang on through climate change, but nothing is forever.
I am about to inform you of the actual history of Smith Island's beginnings: First off, there was not a community of indigenous people on the island. There is evidence that hunting and gathering parties would pass by the island, but none lived there or were buried there. People showed up on the island because John Smith (the statesman, not the explorer) owned Pitchcroft (its original island name) & had indentured servants who he would abandon on the island because he could not pay their indenture servitude release compensation when they've completed their contract. Instead this man dropped them off on this island and literally abandoned them where they had to learn how to farm and live off the land. No one on the island knew how to build boat & were 13-ish miles from the mainland. Eventually the island was bought by John Evans & John Tyler and officially established a thriving community. The NAB Center in Salisbury Maryland has all the deeds & primary sources to explain what happened there dating back to the 1700s.
Hi Nancy. You might want to delete your comment. I'm a Comanche who found no proof there was ever any Native Americans who settled on Smith Island. I'm glad you support the history of Native Americans, but you can point out thousands of places in this country that your comment actually pertains to. Thank you .
Europeans were here first. Yes we now know that as a fact. We now have proof through DNA of the oldest human remains ever found in America, and they were European. Not only do we have that, which dates far before the theory of Native Americans even being here, but we have also found animals frozen in ice that date way before, and they have weapons inside them that we know were only used by Europeans. The whole Native America theory, i just that, it has always been a theory. It was never a fact, it as just what some people believed, but now we know that theory was wrong. That is what happens as technology grown, it allows us to prove and disprove theories. Sorta like the theory that the ancient Egyptians were black, but DNA have proved they were white. King Tut was just a weird looking white guy, and his DNA show she is related to over 50% f all living Europeans. id w really need DNA though? Almost all the mummies have straight hair. Rameses the 2nd was the longest reigning king of Egypt, and when we found his mummy he had straight red hair. You can literally look at his mummy and see he was just a white man with red hair, no DNA needed.
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
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.
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.
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.
People laughed when I told them about climate refugees being a real thing. It's never a problem until it's their problem. I hate how dumb we Americans are...
Imagine swamp land erosion to an ocean and thinking it to be climate warming global change freezing or whatever you've been duped into thinking in different decades. Rough life.
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.
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.
These people deserve better than the terrible member of congress they've had since 2011, who questions whether human activities have contributed to climate change.
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!
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.
"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.....
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
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.
I have family from Smith going back to the 1700’s! Somerset County, of which it is a part, is no longer the prosperous county that it used to be. I have the “mud between my toes”!
@@rebellucy6200 Tell that to people from Austraila who are having record heatwaves. What is happening to the planet now, has never been proven happening since the beginning of time. Rememeber, the world was a ball of fire way longer then humans has been here.
@@rebellucy6200Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the earth should be getting colder on average. However, it is only getting hotter. Furthermore, not only is it getting hotter, the change is happening on a timescale of 200 years. Previously, changes of the same degree have taken roughly 10,000 years or more to occur. Indeed, such a fast increase in average temperature has never happened before. Moreover, there is an immense amount of data and evidence for us humans having caused this climate change with our carbon dioxide emissions. Hence, we do have the capacity to fight these changes by reducing our emissions. Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that there is nothing we can do, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become so prevalent. According to the IPCC: "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals (high confidence)." (IPCC, 2023). Reference: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2023). Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers. Page 4.
@@rebellucy6200 Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the average temperature on Earth should be decreasing. However, the average temperature has only increased. Indeed, not only is the temperature change going against earth's natural cycles, it's occuring at a much faster rate. Previously, changes of this scale have taken ~10,000 years or more. Meanwhile, this change has taken ~200 years. Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence for humanity's carbon dioxide emissions causing climate change. Hence, we do indeed have the ability to fight climate change. Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that we cannot do anything, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become rampant. The IPCC's 6th Synthesis Report's Summary for Policymakers, states on page four (4): "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. [...] (high confidence)." (2023). What's worse, is this is occuring despite the fact the earth should be cooling, with the warming occuring 50x to ~1000x faster than any change has ever happened before.
@rebellucy6200 Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the average temperature on Earth should be decreasing. However, the average temperature has only increased. Indeed, not only is the temperature change going against earth's natural cycles, it's occuring at a much faster rate. Previously, changes of this scale have taken ~10,000 years or more. Meanwhile, this change has taken ~200 years. Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence for humanity's carbon dioxide emissions causing climate change. Hence, we do indeed have the ability to fight climate change. Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that we cannot do anything, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become rampant. The IPCC's 6th Synthesis Report's Summary for Policymakers, states on page four (4): "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. [...] (high confidence)." (2023). What's worse, is this is occuring despite the fact the earth should be cooling, with the warming occuring 50x to ~1000x faster than any change has ever happened before.
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.
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.
Most scientists believe that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will eventually shut down due to Greenland ice melt. When this happens, areas along the Atlantic coast (like the Chesapeake Bay) may experience up to 3 feet of additional sea level rise as warm water from the Gulf "piles up" along the Atlantic sea board instead of circulating through the North Atlantic.
Not possible, hydrodynamics dictate that water will seek its own level, Greenland’s ice meltwater will sink and already does, the chilling of the lower depths is actually good for many reasons and propels ocean currents as it currently does….chilling keep the aquatic thermocline in check and the life there that requires it stable…to warm and it’s no going to have that imbalance required for mixing and change…I see this as a bit of a change for Europe and it’s weather but minimally…they’ll need it as their surface weather is rapidly warming and the temperatures continue average rises..
Yea, I’m calling BS. Grew up on the upper bay and vacation at OC, MD every summer for nearly 50 years. The water level is still the same at both locations as it was 50 years ago. Erosion and sinking, possibly yes, but the bay/ocean water levels haven’t changed.
The sea level rise has enabled "Chessie" to swim much closer to town where it was observed attempting to reach out and pluck unsuspecting tourists from their golf carts!
I don’t blame them for staying. It deserves to be protected…they can also milk the state for more money and hold out for a better buyout. Marylanders respect these people and this community. Of all the stupid things my taxes pay for, preserving this unique and cultural history is among the least of my worries.
If we use a penny of tax dollars to protect this, shame on us. At best we could help them move, to try and sustain against the sea level changes coming is insane
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.
I voted for Harris, but seriously, you had to turn this into a political debate? Classless. And what does that even mean? Talk about your prejudiced liberal. Makes a real progressive like me ill.
Come to Milwaukee or Chicago, do you think the poor people voted Trump or Kamala. Kamala, these are democratic cities. 4 years of TDS incoming. Hope it melts your brain.
@@Nicksonian This is ABSOLUTELY POLITICAL. Smith Island has been conservetard for generations, and their useless representative in congress has denied them TENS OF MILLIONS in funding to fix this problem since the 1990's because they refuse to accept "climate change" money. It is not classless to call out stupidity.
Storm surge is what I'd be worried about. Those are going to get bigger as the Atlantic gets higher. They should be getting money to raise their houses up on stilts, not to tear them down. That initiative came from someone without much insight who was trying to save some money in the short term. Places like this are useful.
It's a place thats worth wanting to save, but this has been happening since these communities were first formed. It's doing what low lying land on the bay has always done.
The entire planet scientific community, national bodies, royal societies tell them, but they don’t need the years of study, field research, writing research papers, peer review, why not just make stuff up sitting at home on your chair on subjects you know nothing about, other than watching a 15 minute video from a similarly unqualified UA-camr.
However when Democratic Presidents like Obama and Biden that try to make Military more Climate NEUTRAL the next GOP President overturns any effort to be Energy Independent from gas, diesel or coal.
In 2019 the Yup’ik became climate change refugees when they had to permanently evacuate their homes in the Eskimo village of Newtok, Alaska, along with their traditional hunting grounds of seal, moose and native plants due to: storm surges, melting permafrost and land erosion at the Ninglick River and Bering Sea coastline. It has been reported, the rising waters of the Ninglick River has caused approximately 60 feet of soil erosion per year. Researchers believe the island could be submerged within a decade. It remains to be seen what Archaeologist and Social Researchers will find concerning the impact, if any, this climate change migration will have on the Yup’ik maintaining their culture and subsistence way of life?
I grew up in Baltimore. The level at any developed waterfront has remained constant. The piers at the Inner Harbor are still at the same level. The video states this is erosion, not sea rise. Do not believe the numbers given for sea rise expectations. Downtown Baltimore is on the bay (Patapsco River) as well, and there are no alarm bells there. It's a money issue, not envrionment. Ocean City, the primary tourist destination on the MD Atlantic Coast, has had multiple erosion mitigation projects where they pump sand from offshore to the beach to keep erosion at bay. They could do that on Smith Island, they just won't due to the low population numbers.
@@dentalnovember both can be true. Sea level is rising, and this island is also sinking. The sinking of the islands is due in no small part to a meteor which hit the area millions of years ago and fractured the underlying rock. This was discovered at least 10 years ago. If people on the island don't know that, they should. Same with 60 minutes research team.
I can only think of the indigenous people who inhabited these lands and were forced to relocate to afford the new pioneers who took over the land. They didn't want to leave but they were forced from their homes. It is great Karma that these people would have to leave in due time. Live on an island sink into the sea.
THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WAS ONCE HOME to more than a dozen offshore island communities-tight-knit villages with enough land for baseball diamonds and marshes thick with crabs and fish. James, Barren, Punch, Holland. One by one, they faded away. Erosion battered their shorelines. Rising waters submerged their soils. Islanders with means packed up their bags and tore down their homes, barged them to the mainland, and reconstructed them on higher ground in Crisfield and around Cambridge. The structures too battered to make the trip stayed, along with the gravestones, and eventually slipped into the sea. But 400 years after the first English settlers arrived, two offshore islands with villages remain. Smith Island, a marshy expanse of three towns 12 miles into the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, is home to about 250 residents. Tangier Island, just a few miles south in Virginia, has more people - about 450 - but less land, with all of its inhabitants concentrated in a central area. As much as Smith and Tangier islands might seem like places apart, it was not always so. The islands formed thousands of years ago, when the Susquehanna River valley flooded and became the Chesapeake Bay. The islands were the tops of ridges. Before the Bay's water rose to its current level, the islands were all connected to the mainland. The Indians didn't canoe to these islands, according to Smith Island resident and artifact expert Tim Marshall. They walked. In 2003, Smith was barely touched by Tropical Storm Isabel, which devastated Tangier, tore apart Hooper's Island, and flooded Annapolis. In 2012 Superstorm Sandy again battered Tangier, but Smith Islanders had minimal damage. Old-timers say the last truly devastating storms were a half century ago: Hurricane Hazel, in 1954, and the unnamed storm of 1962.
Issue is, the Republican-majority population denies climate change for years. So, it’ll take them many more years to actually believe it’ll take away their little paradise. They do have an awesome cake though!
beacuse "the scientific method is CONSENSUS" LOL why do you think there is NEVER a public debate on it? theres no question its changing, but its not from soccer moms driving SUVs or the leaders of the cult flying around in their private jets. solar cycles over 10's of thousand of years and it you are arrogant enough to believe world government will solve it, ive got some land on Smith Island i wanna sell you
I believe the only flood insurance available on that island is Federally funded These proud tough independent pioneering people are always looking for a handout from the government to finance their proud tough independent lifestyle. Time to leave that place to the birds and fish that belong there.
A recent news report said that the doomsday glacier is melting faster than expected, which can flood not only the sea but also the rivers as well . I just wished i knew why its called" doomsday "
As the ice sheets in Antarctica melt, sea levels continue to rise. It is anticipated that when Thwaites ice sheet drops into the ocean, sea level will rise 15 feet (or more)
Where did you read that? The NSF website about the glacier cited a study that says, "We obtain a value for the global, eustatic sea-level rise contribution of about 3.3 meters, with important regional variations. The maximum increase is concentrated along the Pacific and Atlantic seaboard of the United States, where the value is about 25% greater than the global mean, even for the case of a partial collapse." It's considered "unlikely" and supposed to take hundreds or thousands of years.
This is just one of very many places on the coast that are being overtaken by rising sea levels. It can't be stopped and they can't be saved no matter how much money they throw at the problem
If you can afford to lose $10m property in 30 years time or rebuild a $1m property every 5 years I am sure they think it’s worth it. For the rest of us it isn’t.
Go to the ocean-fronting counties in NJ. One trump flag after another flying. Elite, rich republicans, everyone. Using taxpayer dollars to replenish their beaches. Disgusting.
"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.
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.
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.
That lady was definitely confused on how things work. Of all the places to move. I guarantee she'll be the first Karen in line to complain about her entitlements when that shack washes away. Or the roads. Who cares if your house is on stilts if the rest of the island is gone.
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.
They shouldn’t ignore the fact that the other island suffered the same fate and everyone had to move .
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..
Yeah it's a tricky thing. On the one hand, this is tax payer money and that could be used to subsidize their move to less vulnerable areas of the mainland. However, these people have done far less to contribute to climate change than most "mainlanders" so maybe the taxpayers have a responsibility. I guess the main question is, "are we just spending money to delay the inevitable.
@@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.
"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.
Sorry to break it to you but, you weren't there first lmao.
$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?
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.
I dont feel bad for people who built homes on river beds, flood plains, barrier islands or cliff sides. I love the water but i dont need to live on top of it. Smh
No career in insurance for you
@andyd5038 especially government taxpayer subsidized insurance.
Flood plain land and river bed land historically was the cheapest land available and was sold to poor people who couldn't afford anything better. Otoh, cliff sides and barrier islands homes were bought by the rich, who can afford losses. I do feel sorry for the poor, not so much for the rich.
Also the coast make money for the inland .
these folks have been there for hundreds of years and now their homes and way of life is disappearing. So yes, I do feel bad for them.
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.
No tax dollars should be spent on this. This is nature. If you build in an area that is not stable land, then that is what happens.
@@carolr7823 Most homeowners don't think in 100 year time frames. These are generational homes, inherited from parents and grandparents.
@@tthomas184Except for the dum dum from Jersey. I can only imagine how miserable her kids are taking that school boat every morning at 5:45 a.m. LOL yeah, they’re calling her by name because the kids are late for the school boat, AGAIN😂
@wegotthis247 heh. Good point. 🤣Shes delusional if she thinks her kids and grandkids will inherit her waterfront cottage.
Come on. This island was settled in the 1600s. We’ve only about the climate change since the 1950s and most people thought we had lots more time left before the water would begin to eat up land. The drama of Climate Change is happening all over the world…. places that have never burned, never flooded etc. If you think this was a choice of where to settle, that choice was made generations ago. Blaming the people that live there now is ridiculous.
@@barbarabrown5654weather has been happening forever honey.
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...
Our entire culture lacks empathy.
@@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?
It's not only the rising sea levels from melting ice caps but the isostatic pressure of the water on the sea bed. As the water level rises the sea bed lowers dragging the island with it.
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.
I remember learning to crab and crying because I was too young to take the family boat to Smith Island. 🥲 Maryland childhoods are magical. 😊
Some of you thst are saying let the island go have no heart! Smith Island MD and Tangier Island Virginia both have a history, most were born and raised there, their families are buried there. It is their home!
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)
I support these people and I'm not trying to be negative nancy here, but indigenous people did used to live on the island. So when they say it was 'first settled' by a European and that one guy says 'we were here first', that's not actually true. I do hope they can hang on through climate change, but nothing is forever.
Get over yourself. You are beyond insufferable
I am about to inform you of the actual history of Smith Island's beginnings:
First off, there was not a community of indigenous people on the island. There is evidence that hunting and gathering parties would pass by the island, but none lived there or were buried there. People showed up on the island because John Smith (the statesman, not the explorer) owned Pitchcroft (its original island name) & had indentured servants who he would abandon on the island because he could not pay their indenture servitude release compensation when they've completed their contract. Instead this man dropped them off on this island and literally abandoned them where they had to learn how to farm and live off the land. No one on the island knew how to build boat & were 13-ish miles from the mainland. Eventually the island was bought by John Evans & John Tyler and officially established a thriving community. The NAB Center in Salisbury Maryland has all the deeds & primary sources to explain what happened there dating back to the 1700s.
Hi Nancy. You might want to delete your comment. I'm a Comanche who found no proof there was ever any Native Americans who settled on Smith Island. I'm glad you support the history of Native Americans, but you can point out thousands of places in this country that your comment actually pertains to. Thank you .
Europeans were here first. Yes we now know that as a fact. We now have proof through DNA of the oldest human remains ever found in America, and they were European. Not only do we have that, which dates far before the theory of Native Americans even being here, but we have also found animals frozen in ice that date way before, and they have weapons inside them that we know were only used by Europeans. The whole Native America theory, i just that, it has always been a theory. It was never a fact, it as just what some people believed, but now we know that theory was wrong. That is what happens as technology grown, it allows us to prove and disprove theories. Sorta like the theory that the ancient Egyptians were black, but DNA have proved they were white. King Tut was just a weird looking white guy, and his DNA show she is related to over 50% f all living Europeans. id w really need DNA though? Almost all the mummies have straight hair. Rameses the 2nd was the longest reigning king of Egypt, and when we found his mummy he had straight red hair. You can literally look at his mummy and see he was just a white man with red hair, no DNA needed.
@@gregengel1616what does your being a Comanche have to do with anything?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
🤔
People laughed when I told them about climate refugees being a real thing. It's never a problem until it's their problem. I hate how dumb we Americans are...
America is only reactionary and never proactive.
Imagine swamp land erosion to an ocean and thinking it to be climate warming global change freezing or whatever you've been duped into thinking in different decades. Rough life.
Most of us are morans.
@@TheMisterGriswold no regrets? Not even a single letter?
@@donniedowner1686wtf are you talking about
You can talk about mother nature- however, building your house on sand isn’t wise.
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 .
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 ae 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.
220 people live on Smith Island.
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.
It's sinking they said 30 years ago.
DELUSION IS BLISS 🫠
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.
“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 🦀🦀🦀🦀
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.
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.
These people deserve better than the terrible member of congress they've had since 2011, who questions whether human activities have contributed to climate change.
Andy Harris is beyond clueless.
This is the exact problem right here!
These are generations of climate change deniers begging for government money because of climate change.
But they keep voting him in so...
@@bvw3153 so that tells you that they are less than clueless.
The thing is, their property is going underwater whether humans caused climate change or not.
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!
I would LOVE to live there. Quiet, no crime.
What kind of crime-ridden frontier are you living in now??
All the crime was inflicted on the indigenous people.
@@nsbd90now Texas. I am from the Azores. I was used to very low crime. Everywhere you go in the US now it's terrible Crime
I'm sure it's sexual crime that's not reported like incest but then again that's probably why u would like to move there
Same here. Looks absolutely beautiful.
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.
"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.
Let it sink into the ocean. Why someone would buy a piece of property at sea level is beyond me. Sea level rising or not.
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
My dad bought a mobile home on Marathon, it’s in the Florida keys, 1973. We have gained land.
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.
As someone from coastal Louisiana, this is an issue that dozens of thousands of folks have been facing for 10-15+ years now.
I have family from Smith going back to the 1700’s! Somerset County, of which it is a part, is no longer the prosperous county that it used to be. I have the “mud between my toes”!
This comment section is everything wrong with this country. Watched that whole video and only thought about how it impacted yourself?
I can not wait for haters saying that they FEEL like this is not true. Or let us call them experts..
This has been happening since the begining of time. There is NOTHING we can do to stop it.
@@rebellucy6200 Tell that to people from Austraila who are having record heatwaves. What is happening to the planet now, has never been proven happening since the beginning of time. Rememeber, the world was a ball of fire way longer then humans has been here.
@@rebellucy6200Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the earth should be getting colder on average. However, it is only getting hotter.
Furthermore, not only is it getting hotter, the change is happening on a timescale of 200 years. Previously, changes of the same degree have taken roughly 10,000 years or more to occur. Indeed, such a fast increase in average temperature has never happened before.
Moreover, there is an immense amount of data and evidence for us humans having caused this climate change with our carbon dioxide emissions. Hence, we do have the capacity to fight these changes by reducing our emissions.
Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that there is nothing we can do, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become so prevalent.
According to the IPCC: "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals (high confidence)." (IPCC, 2023).
Reference:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2023). Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Summary for Policymakers. Page 4.
@@rebellucy6200 Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the average temperature on Earth should be decreasing. However, the average temperature has only increased.
Indeed, not only is the temperature change going against earth's natural cycles, it's occuring at a much faster rate. Previously, changes of this scale have taken ~10,000 years or more. Meanwhile, this change has taken ~200 years.
Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence for humanity's carbon dioxide emissions causing climate change. Hence, we do indeed have the ability to fight climate change.
Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that we cannot do anything, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become rampant.
The IPCC's 6th Synthesis Report's Summary for Policymakers, states on page four (4): "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. [...] (high confidence)." (2023). What's worse, is this is occuring despite the fact the earth should be cooling, with the warming occuring 50x to ~1000x faster than any change has ever happened before.
@rebellucy6200 Right now, we should be in a cooling cycle; meaning, the average temperature on Earth should be decreasing. However, the average temperature has only increased.
Indeed, not only is the temperature change going against earth's natural cycles, it's occuring at a much faster rate. Previously, changes of this scale have taken ~10,000 years or more. Meanwhile, this change has taken ~200 years.
Moreover, there is overwhelming evidence for humanity's carbon dioxide emissions causing climate change. Hence, we do indeed have the ability to fight climate change.
Nevertheless, I am inclined to agree with you in that we cannot do anything, as climate change skepticism, distrust in public institutions and government, and post-truth worldviews have become rampant.
The IPCC's 6th Synthesis Report's Summary for Policymakers, states on page four (4): "Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850-1900 in 2011-2020. [...] (high confidence)." (2023). What's worse, is this is occuring despite the fact the earth should be cooling, with the warming occuring 50x to ~1000x faster than any change has ever happened before.
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.
looks like a great community to be a part of.
A lot of ignorance there in one spot 🤔
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.
Certain areas should not be built upon. Another example is the Outer Banks in North Carolina, where homes are built close to the ocean.
Most scientists believe that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will eventually shut down due to Greenland ice melt. When this happens, areas along the Atlantic coast (like the Chesapeake Bay) may experience up to 3 feet of additional sea level rise as warm water from the Gulf "piles up" along the Atlantic sea board instead of circulating through the North Atlantic.
WHY I DONT LIVE IN THE SOUTH
BEING HERE IN UPSTATE NY IS OK WITH ME
Not possible, hydrodynamics dictate that water will seek its own level, Greenland’s ice meltwater will sink and already does, the chilling of the lower depths is actually good for many reasons and propels ocean currents as it currently does….chilling keep the aquatic thermocline in check and the life there that requires it stable…to warm and it’s no going to have that imbalance required for mixing and change…I see this as a bit of a change for Europe and it’s weather but minimally…they’ll need it as their surface weather is rapidly warming and the temperatures continue average rises..
Meanwhile, people keep carrying on, having children, getting married, etc., like there's no issues on the horizon.
Yea, I’m calling BS. Grew up on the upper bay and vacation at OC, MD every summer for nearly 50 years. The water level is still the same at both locations as it was 50 years ago. Erosion and sinking, possibly yes, but the bay/ocean water levels haven’t changed.
So uniquely beautiful there. Wow
Anytime you build something directly on the water expect things will eventually change. That's nature.
I once built a sand castle near the ocean, then there was a high tide. I want the government to keep this from happening in the future.
I want the government to spend more money on education so that I read less comments like this.
@@user-f5xt2op9t We already spend 3x what is normal, and underperform at everything. More money is not the cure.
@@coachbrandon01 it was a joke of how uninformed the persons comment was.
I'm a Maryland native and we have so many beautiful landscapes I would hate to see it completely eroded.
The loss of Smith Island won’t be the biggest disaster created by global warming.
Thanks for that, Captain Obvious. It doesn’t mean that their story doesn’t have interest.
Gilligan and the Skipper are the last hold outs here
The sea level rise has enabled "Chessie" to swim much closer to town where it was observed attempting to reach out and pluck unsuspecting tourists from their golf carts!
I don’t blame them for staying. It deserves to be protected…they can also milk the state for more money and hold out for a better buyout. Marylanders respect these people and this community. Of all the stupid things my taxes pay for, preserving this unique and cultural history is among the least of my worries.
This communism/Socialism needs to stop. Why protect the stupid/stubborn?
Remember all that land to the east of Maryland that now in the ocean? This is what happens to sinking tectonic plates
If we use a penny of tax dollars to protect this, shame on us. At best we could help them move, to try and sustain against the sea level changes coming is insane
give the native Americans there land back whatever tribe who used to live there should have the land
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.
As soon as they said they were poor I knew they voted for Trump.
I voted for Harris, but seriously, you had to turn this into a political debate? Classless. And what does that even mean? Talk about your prejudiced liberal. Makes a real progressive like me ill.
Come to Milwaukee or Chicago, do you think the poor people voted Trump or Kamala. Kamala, these are democratic cities. 4 years of TDS incoming. Hope it melts your brain.
@@Nicksonian This is ABSOLUTELY POLITICAL. Smith Island has been conservetard for generations, and their useless representative in congress has denied them TENS OF MILLIONS in funding to fix this problem since the 1990's because they refuse to accept "climate change" money.
It is not classless to call out stupidity.
It wasn't the poor part that gave it away for me, it was how dumb and stubborn they are.
Storm surge is what I'd be worried about. Those are going to get bigger as the Atlantic gets higher. They should be getting money to raise their houses up on stilts, not to tear them down. That initiative came from someone without much insight who was trying to save some money in the short term. Places like this are useful.
I like the grit of these people and their strong sense of community.
It's a place thats worth wanting to save, but this has been happening since these communities were first formed. It's doing what low lying land on the bay has always done.
That's one way of saying it. Logical people call it stubbornness and lack of education.
I had the pleasure of visiting here in the 70s with my Mom and church group. We enjoyed it and the food was great.
Didn’t know there were so many environmental scientists on UA-cam.
Just sick of the lies. That's the team we're on - sick of the lies.
The entire planet scientific community, national bodies, royal societies tell them, but they don’t need the years of study, field research, writing research papers, peer review, why not just make stuff up sitting at home on your chair on subjects you know nothing about, other than watching a 15 minute video from a similarly unqualified UA-camr.
Mary Ada Marshall's Smith Island Cake recipe is online from Southern Cooking where she shared her recipe in 2008. It uses boxed cake mix.
Boxed cake mix? The HORROR! My sister bakes cakes with that, and up till now I thought they were delicious . Thanks for ruining my day. 😂
There’s no better place then place which is bringing that feeling of a happy childhood❤! I would love to visit !!!!🍀
The US Military by itself emits more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than entire countries such as Denmark.
However when Democratic Presidents like Obama and Biden that try to make Military more Climate NEUTRAL the next GOP President overturns any effort to be Energy Independent from gas, diesel or coal.
Which has about 6 million people.
In 2019 the Yup’ik became climate change refugees when they had to permanently evacuate their homes in the Eskimo village of Newtok, Alaska, along with their traditional hunting grounds of seal, moose and native plants due to: storm surges, melting permafrost and land erosion at the Ninglick River and Bering Sea coastline. It has been reported, the rising waters of the Ninglick River has caused approximately 60 feet of soil erosion per year. Researchers believe the island could be submerged within a decade.
It remains to be seen what Archaeologist and Social Researchers will find concerning the impact, if any, this climate change migration will have on the Yup’ik maintaining their culture and subsistence way of life?
I agree with Shannon... life begins when we cross that line of fear. May all residents of Smith Island live a long healthy, happy life.
Just stop!! Please, just stop with the lies & BS!! Much appreciated!!
I grew up in Baltimore. The level at any developed waterfront has remained constant. The piers at the Inner Harbor are still at the same level. The video states this is erosion, not sea rise. Do not believe the numbers given for sea rise expectations. Downtown Baltimore is on the bay (Patapsco River) as well, and there are no alarm bells there.
It's a money issue, not envrionment. Ocean City, the primary tourist destination on the MD Atlantic Coast, has had multiple erosion mitigation projects where they pump sand from offshore to the beach to keep erosion at bay. They could do that on Smith Island, they just won't due to the low population numbers.
@@KeeperKen30 that’s exactly right.
These bay islands are actually sinking. You are correct, it is not a sea level rise.
The very dubious claim of rising sea levels was explained in one sentence as subsidence. The land is sinking so they say the water is rising.
@@dentalnovemberhold up? You're denying the already proven and demonstrated sea rising levels indid ny phd on? God help us 😮
@@dentalnovember both can be true. Sea level is rising, and this island is also sinking. The sinking of the islands is due in no small part to a meteor which hit the area millions of years ago and fractured the underlying rock. This was discovered at least 10 years ago. If people on the island don't know that, they should. Same with 60 minutes research team.
We need subtitles for this story. Whatever English they are speaking is foreign to me
The person at the end sounds like an adolescent.
Love her attitude towards life. 12:48
I'm more interested in the natives these european americans ancestors probably displaced
How much has the sea come up ? And would it not be the same everywhere?
I can only think of the indigenous people who inhabited these lands and were forced to relocate to afford the new pioneers who took over the land. They didn't want to leave but they were forced from their homes. It is great Karma that these people would have to leave in due time. Live on an island sink into the sea.
THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WAS ONCE HOME to more than a dozen offshore island communities-tight-knit villages with enough land for baseball diamonds and marshes thick with crabs and fish.
James, Barren, Punch, Holland. One by one, they faded away. Erosion battered their shorelines. Rising waters submerged their soils. Islanders with means packed up their bags and tore down their homes, barged them to the mainland, and reconstructed them on higher ground in Crisfield and around Cambridge. The structures too battered to make the trip stayed, along with the gravestones, and eventually slipped into the sea.
But 400 years after the first English settlers arrived, two offshore islands with villages remain. Smith Island, a marshy expanse of three towns 12 miles into the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, is home to about 250 residents. Tangier Island, just a few miles south in Virginia, has more people - about 450 - but less land, with all of its inhabitants concentrated in a central area.
As much as Smith and Tangier islands might seem like places apart, it was not always so. The islands formed thousands of years ago, when the Susquehanna River valley flooded and became the Chesapeake Bay. The islands were the tops of ridges. Before the Bay's water rose to its current level, the islands were all connected to the mainland. The Indians didn't canoe to these islands, according to Smith Island resident and artifact expert Tim Marshall. They walked.
In 2003, Smith was barely touched by Tropical Storm Isabel, which devastated Tangier, tore apart Hooper's Island, and flooded Annapolis. In 2012 Superstorm Sandy again battered Tangier, but Smith Islanders had minimal damage. Old-timers say the last truly devastating storms were a half century ago: Hurricane Hazel, in 1954, and the unnamed storm of 1962.
Issue is, the Republican-majority population denies climate change for years. So, it’ll take them many more years to actually believe it’ll take away their little paradise. They do have an awesome cake though!
The REAL issue is that uneducated people buy into conservative rhetoric and stick with it to the death out of spite.
beacuse "the scientific method is CONSENSUS" LOL why do you think there is NEVER a public debate on it? theres no question its changing, but its not from soccer moms driving SUVs or the leaders of the cult flying around in their private jets. solar cycles over 10's of thousand of years and it you are arrogant enough to believe world government will solve it, ive got some land on Smith Island i wanna sell you
Wow…say you copied Peter Santenello without saying you copied Peter Santenello
The water isn't rising, the land is sinking and eroding.
Unfortunately, it's both.
BOTH are happening, stop parroting the fossil fuel propaganda.
Rural life is better than city life
I believe the only flood insurance available on that island is Federally funded
These proud tough independent pioneering people
are always looking for a handout from the government to finance their proud tough independent lifestyle.
Time to leave that place to the birds and fish that belong there.
They're tax payers not EBT recipients.
A recent news report said that the doomsday glacier is melting faster than expected, which can flood not only the sea but also the rivers as well . I just wished i knew why its called" doomsday "
Everybody is going to die, sea's are rising 3.3 mm a year!!
😂😂
As the ice sheets in Antarctica melt, sea levels continue to rise. It is anticipated that when Thwaites ice sheet drops into the ocean, sea level will rise 15 feet (or more)
Cool. So no more New York, New Jersey, Florida, a good deal of the worst parts of the west coast, etc. I fail to see a problem here.
Where did you read that? The NSF website about the glacier cited a study that says, "We obtain a value for the global, eustatic sea-level rise contribution of about 3.3 meters, with important regional variations. The maximum increase is concentrated along the Pacific and Atlantic seaboard of the United States, where the value is about 25% greater than the global mean, even for the case of a partial collapse." It's considered "unlikely" and supposed to take hundreds or thousands of years.
This is just one of very many places on the coast that are being overtaken by rising sea levels. It can't be stopped and they can't be saved no matter how much money they throw at the problem
It's called erosion, the sea level is exactly the same as always
We got all kinds of islands off my homeland. Talk about the outer banks nc next lol. They ain't got nothing on us
I seen people surf down the middle of the road ...
Salvo homeowner myself!
Imagine what happened during the last ice age when all of the ice receded and ocean levels rose by hundreds of feet.
Why do rich elite democrats keep moving to ocean front property if they are the first ones telling us the shores are dissapearing
As if no Republicans own ocean front property 😂
@tthomas184 they do but they arent fear mongering people about climate change. According to democrats we should currently all be dead and under water
If you can afford to lose $10m property in 30 years time or rebuild a $1m property every 5 years I am sure they think it’s worth it. For the rest of us it isn’t.
Another climate change denier! UA-cam really brings out the smart ones! rofl.
Go to the ocean-fronting counties in NJ. One trump flag after another flying. Elite, rich republicans, everyone. Using taxpayer dollars to replenish their beaches. Disgusting.
I respect you wanting to stay there, but not at other tax payers' expense.
Boo Hoo.....move