The Washington Post gets the story half right.
and then succumbs to nonsense.
Sea levels have been rising and glacial ice has been melting for 20,000 years. This would continue even if the climate was identical every single year.
What do they think glacial rebound is? It is a by-product of glaciers melting.
We keep getting the same thing in the UK, where Scotland is rising and the south is sinking.
The most annoying is when natural coastal erosion is put down to “Sea level rise” 🙁
So why did the sea go out 5miles from Ephesus in Turkey? Sea level dropping LOL?
People seem to have the belief that the the way things are are the way they ought to be. The Chesapeake is the drowned mouth of the Susquehanna River, and as you say the area has been sinking for a long, long time. People seem to think that any change must be due to man. We saw the same thing with acid rain being blamed for things that had nothing to do with it.
I wonder how much of the erosion on the Bay could be attributed to wake erosion from freighter traffic to Baltimore?
This drives me insane.
They answer their own question by giving us a true, geologically sound reason where the earth is rebounding from a past ice age and parts of the land masses are sinking where others are rising. Not to mention that there will always be erosion. But of course, the true culprit is global warming. Have they come out of the computer lab lately?