Editing Tangier, Virginia (section)

===Reduction in land mass===
[[File:Tangier Island flooding.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|left|Tangier Island in October 2023, taken at high tide from the steps of [[Tangier Combined School]].]]
The island is at risk of disappearing due to upland to wetland conversion and rising sea levels caused by [[climate change]];<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=Zehao |last2=Schulte |first2=David |date=2021 |title=Predictions of the Climate Change-Driven Exodus of the Town of Tangier, the Last Offshore Island Fishing Community in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay |journal=Frontiers in Climate |volume=3 |doi=10.3389/fclim.2021.779774 |issn=2624-9553|doi-access=free }}</ref> since 1850, the island's landmass has been reduced by 67%. Under a mid-range [[sea level rise]] scenario, two of the islands' three ridges are expected to become wetland in the 2030s, with the third expected to succumb by 2051.<ref name="Schulte" />

Many residents believe that erosion is the cause of the increasing incidence and severity of flooding.<ref name=" BBC News">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15395685|title=Altered States: The disappearing island in the Chesapeake Bay|last=Strasser|first=Franz|date=October 25, 2011|publisher=BBC|access-date=October 30, 2011}}</ref> A 2015 study by Davide M. Schulte, Karin M. Dridge, and Mark H. Hudgins, all members of the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]], concluded that Tangier has 25–50 years of habitability remaining and that the subsidence of the ridges is ongoing since at least the mid-19th century. The authors also conclude that the primary causes of the [[subsidence]] in the southern Chesapeake Bay region are [[Sea level rise|sea-level rise]] due to the melting of the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet|Laurentide ice sheet]], groundwater extraction on mainland Virginia, and the remaining effects of the [[Chesapeake Bay impact crater]] near [[Cape Charles, Virginia]], 35.5 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schulte |first1=David M. |last2=Dridge |first2=Karin M. |last3=Hudgins |first3=Mark H. |title=Climate Change and the Evolution and Fate of the Tangier Islands of Chesapeake Bay, USA |journal=Scientific Reports |date=December 10, 2015 |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=17890 |doi=10.1038/srep17890 |pmid=26657975 |pmc=4675185 |bibcode=2015NatSR...517890S |language=en |issn=2045-2322|doi-access=free }}</ref>

The town has been talking with political representatives for decades to get protection for the island in the form of jetties or sea walls. The Town, the History Museum, and townspeople continue to raise money for their sea wall fund.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/should-the-united-states-save-tangier-island-from-oblivion.html|title=Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion? |last=Gertner|first=Jon|date=July 6, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=July 20, 2017 |language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2017, [[CNN]] aired a story about Tangier that featured the town's mayor, James W. Eskridge. [[Donald Trump|President Donald Trump]] called the mayor personally to assure him that the town would survive but offered no concrete form of relief or financial aid.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/14/trump-calls-mayor-of-shrinking-chesapeake-island-and-tells-him-not-to-worry-about-it/|title=Trump calls mayor of shrinking Chesapeake island and tells him not to worry about it |last=Andrews |first=Travis M. |newspaper=Washington Post |date=June 14, 2017 |access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wavy.com/2017/06/13/president-donald-trump-calls-mayor-of-tangier-island/|title=President Donald Trump calls mayor of Tangier Island|last=Schaad|first=Tom |date=June 14, 2017 |website=WAVY-TV|access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |title=U.S. island in danger of being swallowed by sea |publisher=CNN |medium=video |url=http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/06/09/lead-gray-tangier-island-va-at-risk-of-disappearing-pkg.cnn/video/playlists/mobile-digital-shorts/|access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/14/trump-tells-tangier-island-mayor-not-worry-sea-level-rise/394688001/|title=Trump tells Tangier Island mayor not to worry about sea-level rise |last=Vaughn |first=Carol |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref>
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