Common
Dreams reports that Republican legislators in North Carolina are so
concerned about scientific predictions concerning the rise of sea levels by
2100 due to climate change and how that might effect the value of real estate on the North Carolina coast that they are considering legislation TO OUTLAW THE
RISE OF THE SEA LEVEL ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST due to climate change.
If the Republican
dominated legislature votes as expected, scientists will be prohibited from
factoring in the anticipated impact of climate change and the accelerating
melting of the polar icecaps on Carolina's low-lying coastal communities. By legislative decree, the state's own researchers will be
forced to base their predictions solely on historical climate data, rather than
the acceleration of global warming that climatologists expect to occur in the
coming decades. Read more here: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/05
House
Bill 819 establishing Costal Management Policies reads in part.
Section 2 (e): The Division of Coastal Management shall be
the only State agency authorized to develop rates of sea-level rise and shall
do so only at the request of the Commission. These 11 rates shall only be
determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time
12 period following the year 1900. Rates of sea-level rise may be extrapolated
linearly to estimate 13 future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of
accelerated rates of sea-level rise. 14
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