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- There are islands in the Chesapeake Bay that have already succumbed to sea level rise, one of them is Holland Island.

- Even in a best case scenario, the consensus is that we'll get at least two feet of sea level rise by the year 2100.

- One big question is: What will happen when flooding gets worse and worse and people decide there's no hope for them anymore to live in their respective towns.

Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian whose stories on science, technology, and nature have appeared in a host of national magazines. Since 2003 he has worked mainly as a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest is The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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