Smith Island on 60 Minutes
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Another climate change sky is falling hit piece pulling at your heartstrings:
But there is this:
Islands in the bay have been forming and disappearing since forever. The earth evolves like a living organism.
60 Minutes Spotlights Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Sea Level Rise Challenges
The plight of Smith Island, Maryland attracted national attention this week on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Smith Island, nestled off the coast of Crisfield in Tangier Sound, is one of Maryland’s most unique cultural and ecological places.
www.cbf.org
But there is this:
Chesapeake Quarterly Volume 13 Numbers 2 & 3: Vanished Chesapeake Islands
Exclusivity defines the Maryland shoreline: large homes with gazebos and private beaches, quaint towns chockablock with designer handbags and chic dresses, restaurants serving $25 crab cake dinners. Less seen are the tight-knit African-American communities that have endured since slavery. They...
www.chesapeakequarterly.net
Islands in the bay have been forming and disappearing since forever. The earth evolves like a living organism.
Someone needs to tell them about at least a dozen seaside italian cities and towns that are beneath the waves since the Roman Empire, the islands that disappeared beneath the Caribbean a few thousand years ago and the area of the North Sea called Doggerland that disappeared about 5000BC.
Were the Neanderthals campfires and Mammoth farts responsible?
Were the Neanderthals campfires and Mammoth farts responsible?
jrt_ms1995
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When combined together, maybe? Would have been a huge blast!
Prehistoric BLU-82.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
And yet nothing on the composition of the soil of these islands. Was it mostly a sandy soil? Most likely. Just the tidal movements alone can have enough effect over years to whittle away these island soils. Throw in many northeasters over the decades and centuries, some hurricanes, and not many loose soil islands will last. Especially if the tidal waters, while ebbing and receding, is sped up around a converging area.
I wonder when the story makers will focus on Calvert County getting narrower and narrower due to the Cliffs of Calvert erosion, constantly calving off? Which is the reason why near the entire length of the cliffs, the (navigational) water depth is only 2-3 feet deep out to a 1/4 mile, with some areas 3-9 feet deep out to near three quarters a mile off shore. At Dares Beach, pretty much the middle of the County, the water level goes from 2 to 9 feet out to 3/4 of a mile.
And as any waterman or fisherman knows, when over on the eastern side of the bay, the water is very shallow all over, such as in the Choptank, and the entire area east of buoy 76 on over the Honga River. Why? Because natural erosion of low lying lands. Taylor's Island averages only 1 to 6 feet above sea level. Maybe it'll be gone in another hundred years?
And yet nothing on the composition of the soil of these islands. Was it mostly a sandy soil? Most likely. Just the tidal movements alone can have enough effect over years to whittle away these island soils. Throw in many northeasters over the decades and centuries, some hurricanes, and not many loose soil islands will last. Especially if the tidal waters, while ebbing and receding, is sped up around a converging area.
I wonder when the story makers will focus on Calvert County getting narrower and narrower due to the Cliffs of Calvert erosion, constantly calving off? Which is the reason why near the entire length of the cliffs, the (navigational) water depth is only 2-3 feet deep out to a 1/4 mile, with some areas 3-9 feet deep out to near three quarters a mile off shore. At Dares Beach, pretty much the middle of the County, the water level goes from 2 to 9 feet out to 3/4 of a mile.
And as any waterman or fisherman knows, when over on the eastern side of the bay, the water is very shallow all over, such as in the Choptank, and the entire area east of buoy 76 on over the Honga River. Why? Because natural erosion of low lying lands. Taylor's Island averages only 1 to 6 feet above sea level. Maybe it'll be gone in another hundred years?
Grumpy
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I read somewhere that the entire bay's average depth is like 5 feet..all pretty shallow except for the channel.
I didn't see anything so pulling at your heartstrings in the segment as much as I thought it was an interesting bit of history and the people that still live there. Erosion happens - don't know if that's climate change or just the natural order of things when you live near water.Another climate change sky is falling hit piece pulling at your heartstrings:
60 Minutes Spotlights Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay Sea Level Rise Challenges
The plight of Smith Island, Maryland attracted national attention this week on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Smith Island, nestled off the coast of Crisfield in Tangier Sound, is one of Maryland’s most unique cultural and ecological places.www.cbf.org
But there is this:
Chesapeake Quarterly Volume 13 Numbers 2 & 3: Vanished Chesapeake Islands
Exclusivity defines the Maryland shoreline: large homes with gazebos and private beaches, quaint towns chockablock with designer handbags and chic dresses, restaurants serving $25 crab cake dinners. Less seen are the tight-knit African-American communities that have endured since slavery. They...www.chesapeakequarterly.net
Islands in the bay have been forming and disappearing since forever. The earth evolves like a living organism.
Appreciated the Chesapeake Quarterly attachment. A lot of stuff in there that I didn't know about this area.
Imagine that... All this time I thought it was a political thing that Democrats can control with legislation....
Sarcasm and cynicism, two attributes that make a person tolerable to me!
3CATSAILOR
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Left wing propaganda.
Did you even bother to watch it?