A disappearing island’s mayor challenged Al Gore on climate change.

Grist
By Kate YoderAug 2, 2017, 5:25 pm214 pts
James Eskridge, mayor of Virginia’s tiny Tangier Island, gave the climate change activist a piece of his mind during a televised town hall meeting Tuesday evening. He blames his island’s slow descent into the Chesapeake Bay on erosion instead of encroachment from surrounding waters. “I’m not a…

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