Fox Island has been washed away by sea level rise, forcing end of Chesapeake Bay education program. (Baltimore Sun)

Global warming and ocean level rise are real.  Grateful that some nineteen Florida Mayors, including St. Augustine Mayor Tracy Upchurch, are in Washington, D.C. with former Mayor Nancy Shaver this week at the American Flood Coalition.

When I was a teenager, my mom and I took a boat for $5 from Chatham to the barrier island on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts, lunching on delicious tuna fish sandwiches.  That barrier island is gone at that point, and the once-enclosed Chatham harbor is open to the ocean.

Evocative article from The Baltimore Sun:

• ENVIRONMENT 

Fox Island has been washed away by sea level rise, forcing end of Chesapeake Bay education program

By SELENE SAN FELICE

CAPITAL GAZETTE |

OCT 18, 2019 | 12:30 PM 

Fox Island high tide in 2004 (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)

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