Tangier Island climate change crisis

Climate change is making Tangier Island disappear into Chesapeake Bay, right here in the US. And you can literally see it.

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00:00You can see the Cheyennes that are missing here.

00:09They went right on out here in a row of them.

00:14It started during Sandy.

00:16They started disappearing and this was the first one to go.

00:34I don't think a stronger case could be made in the continental United States about how

00:40rapid climate change can be.

00:47Some people on the island actually dispute it.

00:50They say that it's not an issue of the sea level rising, it's actually just the land

00:56sinking.

00:57There's changes going on, but I don't think, I'm not so sure it's Mayan made or Mayans

01:02causing it.

01:03They can protect us with a jetty, but as far as changing what's causing it, no.

01:32This isn't a problem that's happening in the distant future.

01:38It's not something that scientists are talking about might be happening in a hundred years.

01:42It's something that's happening right here in our own country.