North Carolina's law against accurately reporting the rate of sea level rise
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Channel: Desertphile · 2012 · News & Politics
'You can't legislate the ocean, and you can't legislate storms.' -- East Carolina University geologist Stan Riggs The state General Assembly's Replacement House Bill 819 would rule that scientists are not allowed to accurately predict sea-level rise. Using only legal calculations, the sea level will now rise eight inches by the end of the century--- not the forty that scientists estimate. North Caroline Sea Level Rise Bill 819: www.nccoast.org/uploads/documents/CRO/2012-5/SLR-bill.pdf Sea Level Bill Would Allow North Carolina to Stick Its Head in the Sand: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/01/sea-level-bill-would-allow-north-carolina-to-stick-its-head-in-the-sand IPCC Summary for Policy Makers (SPM), Sea Level Rise Projections, year 2007: http://warmwagers.org/SPM2feb07.pdf Sea level rise likely to be greater than IPCC Assessment Report Four predicted: http://www.liv.ac.uk/climate/documents/Symposium2011/svetlana.pdf A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/315/5810/368.short Download global sea level reconstruction data: http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/staff/?user=JevreSvet
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