North Carolina’s Coastal Resources Commission, using current scientific data, estimated a 39-inch rise in sea level by the year 2100. Developers of beach houses, marinas, and seaside resorts don’t want to hear about it, so a bill has been introduced in the state legislature making scientific estimates of changes in sea level illegal.
Just like legendary King Canute, North Carolina’s politicians want to order the sea to stop rising. Maybe Canute was really a Tarheel Republican climate change denialist.
More:
“Climate Change: North Carolinians Hope to Stop It in Its Tracks,” Bill Chameides, Huffington Post
“NC Considers Making Sea Level Rise Illegal,” Scott Huler, Scientific American blog
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June 3, 2012 at 2:41 pm
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