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Awakening to Sea Level Rise

August 8, 2008 – 1:21 pm

By Kahrin Deines/Medill – Smith Island, MD
Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place.
Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor. Between breaths and pauses to call for ‘Amens,’ his [...]

By Kahrin Deines | Posted in Politics and The Environment | Also tagged Chesapeake Bay, climate change, global warming, sea level rise, Smith Island | Comments

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