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Chesapeake Bay’s Tangier Island is disappearing due to many different climate phenomena.
Among them are the ice sheets that covered North America tens of thousands of years ago and melted. Underneath the sheets, inland areas of the country sank. In turn, that propped up areas on the other end, like Chesapeake Bay. Like a playground seesaw, when the sheets melted, the inland areas rebounded upward, and the bay sank back down. It’s been subsiding since.
There’s also climate change-induced sea level rise causing ocean and bay waters to increase in volume. Emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, which then melts ice caps that feed more water into the Atlantic Ocean that feeds Chesapeake Bay.
“Eventually it’s going to affect a lot more people than it already affects. People don’t really pay much attention to it until it really affects them,” said Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge. “The climate is definitely changing and changing fast … you’re going to need to adapt. If you’re unable to adapt you are in trouble.”
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