Wilbur Snaffel still crazy to me that a once an island is submerging. I mean imagine the world is bound to fucking sink if we don’t take responsibility for our actions. Climate change is real and we should do something about it for the future
The people who first built their homes and fought in the wars for our nation, didn't know geology. To them it was solid ground, and they built a city, a community there for generation after generation. This is the sign for all people to pay attention to. Many cities, small and quite large with millions of population on the brink of being climate refugees with no one to take them in, no land to relocate to. United States is a mover and shaker when we want to be, but we only pay attention when it comes to our shores. This island is a harbinger of what's to come.
Millennium Tower in downtown SF, 58 stories tall, sank 17" so far, tilted 14", so far, in 10 years. Average $1.6 million a condo, worthless now. Smug engineers, Fools everywhere.
If y’all are looking for an update, the island is fine as of right now, I live on the peninsula that is only miles off the island. I know people who live on the island and have family there, people visit all year around.
@@robmol1499 no, you have to understand that we live in a place that is determined by tourist and visitors, which we only have between Memorial Day Weekend and Labor Day, after that we only have people driving through and those people don’t know about the island, I’m sure if touristy goes up then the sea wall will become more important
@@addisonlynnmaurice1070 from what I can see, the island has little no trees, especially on the coast line, trees root hold sand/soil together, the samething is happening in Florida.
Klanny The island is sinking. Lol. If ocean was rising it would have the same effect on every land mass in the world. Use your common sense if you have any.
MultiSilversalmon It already is. Sinking because of rising sea levels. The same is happening right across the world, islands in the pacific, mediterranean.Greenland is melting away at the rate of 12 feet every few years.
a little off topic but I found a video on here claiming the tsunami in 2005 was caused by aliens raising the sea floor from their underwater bases. Maybe they are in on this too! lolololol
NYPATRIOT...from a ecological standpoint, the wall must first be built before any sand be supplemented... because the sand will only erode with just one or two storms if theres no wall to contain it.... theres actually a cheaper way to do it, but it takes decades to make it efffective---- mangroves instead of walls,
Jasper .i know youre not educated.. no need for further explanation buddy.. your comment validates every single thing.. help yourself, and go to the library if you cant afford to go to school.
The video clearly states it was already sinking the past 100 years, but that due to climate change it is sinking faster. They’re not suggesting the rising water levels are due 100% to climate change alone.
Actually in the title, and quoted throughout the video it said just that and KEPT skipping the sinking part. I'd say intentional manipulation of information
It can not be sinking faster if the water level is rising - Use your head if you stand in a lake and the water rises are you sinking the answer is no While the island may be sinking it would sink at a set rate but if the water level rises then of cousre it would appear to be sinking faster - Ignorant fools here are conflating the 2 issues
Mabey You will be able to say that now that Earth has slipped off of its AXIS ! , And it is getting colder each Year and we are going back into an Ice age Smartass !!!!!!! 777
Jeffrey Blattman why would they have to build a new home.. there are homes everywhere already lol. Also one doesn't need to buy, they can rent. If they did buy though 60k ontop of a steady income is easily enough to pay off a mortgage.
A hurricane could destroy it or pile up sand and make it bigger. It depends on which way the wind blows. The island is a sand bar, likely created by a hurricane long ago.
@@ocbee6175 What do you think they're going to have to do now? Moving is inevitable. It is hard to feel sorry for people when they deliberately move somewhere they know isn't going to last beyond 20-40 years.
the uk is better than the dutch for reclaiming land, during the Danish invasion of the uk, the danish where the ability to sail their boats right to the city of york.. today york is 40 miles inland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw#/media/File:England_878.svg
Honestly these people who live in lowlands along the coast are asking for issues period. Its like where I live in KY. Folks built in flood plains then cry and cant understand when heavy rains flood them out. There is a reason why the old homes where I live are on the high ground.
Most of our commerce depends on access to waterways. Are you saying crab fishers are foolish because they don’t live on mountain tops? How about people who work on oceanic oil platforms? We have to figure out how to protect people from sea incursion and catastrophic flooding. If we don’t, and these events keep getting worse, our economy will collapse. These folks live in what’s basically a tourist attraction, now. They CAN move to other harbors. But the same thing is happening to entire Maryland Eastern Shore.
I appreciate the informative spotlight, but in all truth, a town built on what is effectively a natural sandbar is not a good poster child sea level rise. It is a poster child for erosion. The fact that any storm surge to hit the region floods it, as depicted here, is a better talking point concerning climate change. Since more storm surges in Virginia is a consequence of a changing climate.
from a ecological standpoint, the wall must first be built before any sand be supplemented... because the sand will only erode with just one or two storms if theres no wall to contain it.... theres actually a cheaper way to do it, but it takes decades to make it efffective---- mangroves instead of walls,
The factors here are erosion which the island was always susceptible to. Only rising sea levels have further contributed it it sinking. Secondly, many Pacific islands are also in threat of the same thing. Reasoning this issue out by calling it a "sandbar" is uneducated.
This is actually a great example of sea level rise. If you listened to what the marine biologist had said, you would have heard that the island is both eroding and sinking at the same time. If it was just eroding, the islands rate of decay would be much slower.
Such a charming and beautiful island. It must be heartbreaking for those who live there to think that their homes might disappear. My heart goes out to them.
it is i was born there my aunt lives there and i use to visit it every summer and holiday its quite sad knowing the place i was born wont be there someday
+Mic Nor This makes me so sad. I used to visit Tangier growing up. The land was always low-lying so it flooded during storms, but here everything looks saggy because of the sinking foundations.
No, since when do we bail out people who choose to live at or below sea level? I live in Southern Virginia and the altitude is 466 feet. Think of it as "Evolution in Action". Just say no to stupid.
Manhattan Island is already having problems. A lot of that land was 'reclaimed' from the water, so a small change is water levels will cause flooding. Even if you're not a Global Warming believer, the sea levels are certainly beginning to rise, and it's becoming a very real problem.
Iodine Kaida the ground is falling apart bc the sand has nothing to hold it together, AND the land is sinking. The water isn't rising. It's some bs they want to use to make it more dramatic.
@Some Swede - How about the Netherland government's tourism website? www.holland.com/global/tourism.htm - it says "Your Official Guide for Visiting Holland." That said, some people know that calling the Netherlands, "Holland" is incorrect, but I imagine many people don't know.
@@th.6599 the Earth has drastically changed in the past and life has always survived even when 99% of the species have died. We focus too much on try to keep the world exactly as it is and not adapting to the changes. We need to both adapt and change our habits in order to survive. Reducing CO2 emissions alone won't help with climate change because the Earth in the past has naturally heated and cooled itself. Green technologies are the future, but being stubborn and stupidly staying in cities that are at or near sea level is not the way forward.
@@th.6599 You sure do have a yuge ego. Human beings are so powerful we're changing a planet that is trillions of years old. A planet which has been in constant change since its formation. Get over yourself. Earth doesn't need you to save it. If you really cared you'd walk barefoot and naked everywhere you went because of the materials used to make shoes and clothes. You'd only east what you grew or hunted because of the costs of farming. Nah, you just comment on RU-vid and toss Starbucks cups into recycling.
Tell that to NYC la and the entire eastern seaboard in 20 years. By 2100 NYC will be gone along with Florida and 30 percent of land on earth to the seas. Much of that will be a quarter to 40 percent of arable land with it btw.
BOB.org you are wrong moron. It will all be gone along with a majority of the world's arable land. Might even be sooner but the ipcc lists it as 100 years and Florida is gone. Those are facts not fictious oil lobby dribble
BOB.org your sources are not scientifically peer reviewed and are thus not credible as scientific resources just like your lack of science background. Ipcc stands as undisputed by 99 percent of the world and 99 percent of scientists as of 2017. Dumb climate change deniers will be dumb always
BOB.org you showed nothing. Your data is not part of a peer reviewed journal and is thus interpreted as hogwash. As i said it is not credible. You are thus a climate change denier by denying the work of the ipcc moron. Go look them up and other credible scientific minds like Oxford or any university peer reviewed journal.
Im just wondering, would a seawall really help alleviate the problem in the long term? I would think sand supplementation would be more worthwhile in the long run helping preserve the areas ecological value by maintaining the dynamic environment in which it lays.
Azivegu.. from a ecological standpoint, the wall must first be built before any sand be supplemented... because the sand will only erode with just one or two storms if theres no wall to contain it.... theres actually a cheaper way to do it, but it takes decades to make it efffective---- mangroves instead of walls,
How building a seawall would do any good? Government would be better of spending $30 millions on purchasing new housing for 500 Tangier residents outside of this island, on mainland.
It's a beautiful town. It's too bad they built their community on sinking sand. There are some places people should avoid settling in. This is one of them. Still, it's very sad...my heart and prayers go out to everyone...
They are filming and showing you only the areas with high tide flooding. The camera shows you the narrow picture, but you think the whole world is sinking.
Yup! That sea level rise is just kicking their ass! I've seen the same thing on Baltic coast. The sea took brick and mortar buildings build on cliffs and away from the shore. This is pure BS! You build on sand, you get to go swimming sooner or later!
Its due to both. The island is sinking because it was built on sand AND CLIMATE CHANGE IS accelerating the the sinking. The major ice caps on land are dissapearing. Antartica gains around 80 billion tons of sheets whereas Greenland losses almost 200 billion tons.
If it's a natural sand bar.. That's worse. People don't understand sand bars AREN'T suppose to sink of fill up naturally. Florida is showing signs of this happening, as well.
I am born and raised in Florida. I've seen a lot of changes here in my life time. It used to be swamp, then they dredged and sand blasted. It won't be long before it starts to go back to being covered again. Especially with all the sink holes we get here.
just gonna point out - its easy for all of us to say ‘yo just move, you shouldn’t have built there in the first place’. but those are people’s homes, and it sounds like in many cases, these people have called this place home for generations and generations. that sense of community and belonging can’t be replaced as easily as a house can if they were to move. i don’t know if a seawall would buy more time, as being a barrier island, your water table is going to be incredibly close to the surface. water isn’t just coming across the surface of the land from the sea, but up through the ground as well. perhaps stilts for the houses? that would at least buy a little more time. with rising sea levels, i don’t think this community is going to be the only one displaced, but trying to hold back an entire ocean isn’t going to work. finding adaptive and sustainable housing for all communities should probably be a more reasonable goal. like who knows? maybe developing some kind of floatable houses for island and coastal communities that can withstand changing sea-levels and allow people like them to retain a sense of home and belonging despite changing times.
I went there 35 years ago to visit. The streets were full of water then. We walked the whole island. It has one street around it. Only about 100yds of the street were dry. The erosion was terrible.
the native americans probably put a curse here for the future living of the white people there through the next decades and through centuries during their colonial times when native americans we're wiped out by whites and steal the land from them, these is probably the curse
$30 million to save 500 homes? I think the tax money would be better spent relocating the people on Tangier. Building a wall around the island is a temporary solution. Eventually the water will rise above the wall or the wall will fail, then people could die.
@@theartofpixels ya that say it all, the trees' roots are what would hold sand/soil in the ground. samething is happening to Floridas coast line, nothing but beach.
when the global warning SEA LEVEL SCARE was causing florida prime beach front prices to drop , al gore bought a nice , very nice one......WHY WASN'T HE AFRAID?........duh?
The residents are in denial if they think a sea wall will give them much in the way of time. The island is sand and also the sea is rising. Not to mention there is a health risk with all that water staying under homes...Black mold. If they care about themselves and their families they will move off the island now.
I have lived on the shoreline my whole life. The water has not changed at all. I see no evidence of sea level change. It's land that is sinking period. Sea levels do not rise in one place and not another. Sea levels are the same everywhere in the world.
“Sea levels do not rise in one place and not another.” How do you not know about tides if you live on the shore? Sea levels are uneven all over the globe. We’ve been able to measure absolute elevation for 25 years. You can look up where the absolute elevation of the ocean is more or less. It bulges at the equator and also in response to tidal forces. The continental shelves and plates affect how sea level changes affect shores. Subsidence occurs for various reasons, some related to human activity, and some natural processes. Same with isostatic rebound that occurs as glaciers retreat. Continental rebound makes sea level drop in some areas.
Remember learning about this island in high school and that the sand was washing out from under it. At the same time in high school they were teaching us that by now we would have an ice age....
@@codiefitz3876 which part of your sentence is helpful/worthwhile. Choosing to insult someone is really sad, when the OP was sharing a life story. Why is everything considered a threat to your existence?
Human arrogance & inability to let go, that will make natural occurrences like climate change turn into catastrophes. That island looks like it was always destined to be reclaimed by the sea(aren't they all). Yet dude at the end says no we can't change our ways we must fix what isn't broken. I'm sure building docks, sea walls, dredging, etc none of that could speed up erosion. It's like building a city, in a bowl, below sea level, near a coast, then cry for help every time it floods.
from a ecological standpoint, the wall must first be built before any sand be supplemented... because the sand will only erode with just one or two storms if theres no wall to contain it.... theres actually a cheaper way to do it, but it takes decades to make it efffective---- mangroves instead of walls,
What people tend to forget is the planet is still making itself yea this island may disappear but another island will one get bigger like Hawaii is right now or another island will emerge eventually cause of underwater volcanoes. In the end were just in the way this is a planet we live on it's not our planet were literally a grain of sand compared to the time this planet has been alive and going through it's changes. I'm just excited that I'm alive to actually see this process happen get smarter humans don't build on coastlines.
If its been losing land since 1850 due to sinking and they still keep building on it, its not climate change. Its the stubbornness of continuing to build instead starting to move elsewhere away from the island.
Lets say there is 500 residents, so 250 houses at 300k each would be only 75 million dollars and a better result than a sea wall which may save the town.
Town may have history, but it is inevitable it will be reclaimed by the bay. The numbers don't add up to save a sand bar, that would be like pouring concrete in a volcano to keep it from erupting.
“If we don’t ‘get’ a seawall…….” Sorry folks, but a seawall will do you no good. That island is already gone. That’s reality. A seawall will only be a prohibitively costly short term stopgap. Are you residents gonna pay for the seawall? Or are you gonna soak the taxpayers of your state for this boondoggle? TIME TO LET GO. Sorry for your loss. Your real estate values are zero, and you’ll get nothing in return for moving. But move is what you need to do.
IN A FEW DECADES , they will be back out there reporting on how these swimmers were "blindsided"....On Cam: "We was hit quick... I din even have time to grab my cigarettes or my koozie, fore the water done come up"
@@tcrooks16 it's amazing the variety we have. Tangier locals have been on the island for hundreds of years so they have a very distinct dialect. Here in southern va it sounds like you're in mississippi or something 😂 and then there's northern va... We don't talk about northern va
sorry guys we cant buy you a sea wall to save your island. We need to save up for another war. You know missiles guns, billion dollar fighter jets etc etc
Jonathan Campbell You shut up, ignorant fool. Read your Bible why don’t you. Educate yourself. That’s what’s wrong with America, people just follow the crowd are rude and misinformed .
Mother: I don’t see why you want to move this island is fine *water rises above son’s head* Mother: welp time to go *house folds up* Neighbor: what the fuuuu
@@chinookh4713 Oh I’m definitely not debating that, I’m sure we have something to do with the speeding up or slowing down of global warming. I just don’t think it’s to the extent of the meat you would like us to believe it is. But sometimes the only way to make any change is to make people believe that it is imperative
