North Carolina Coastal Federation informs us:
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A bill that could be introduced when the N.C. General Assembly convenes Wednesday would prevent state agencies and local governments from planning for the higher seas that many scientists expect later this century as the climate warms.
Instead, the bill requires that any state forecast for future sea-level rise be based on the historical rise of the last century, and it prohibits state agencies and institutions and local governments from developing their own forecasts based on a different standard.
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Ah, the land of the free. Well not free science of course.
And here's another way of putting it:
ttp://io9.com/5914378/north-carolina-considers-outlawing-accurate-predictions-of-sea-level-rise
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Faced with predictions that sea levels in the coastal areas of North Carolina will rise by a meter in the next century, legislators are considering bold action: making those predictions illegal. A bill being circulated in the Tarheel state would force scientists to estimate future sea levels on a linear path based on trends since 1900 — in other words, based on the simple assumption that trends always move in a straight line, no matter what.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-rise-illegal/
Why you ask? Because of money of course.
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So the members of the developers’ lobbying group NC-20 say the sea will rise only 8 inches, because … because …
We’ve got resorts to build and we don’t care what the rest of the ocean does – our sea isn’t going to rise by more than 15.6 inches.
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