NC Sea Level Rise Bill Rises to the Status of Law
by Bill Chameides | August 2nd, 2012
posted by Erica Rowell (Editor)
North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue lets controversial bill stand.
Why? “Because it allows local governments to use their own scientific studies to define rates of sea level change,” she said.
I don’t know about you but I am anxiously awaiting the sea level assessments from the National Academies of Science of Carteret County, of Dare County, and so forth.
Read More About the Controversial Bill
- “Climate Change: North Carolinians Hope to Stop It in Its Tracks
-TheGreenGrok (May 22, 2012) - “Sea Level Rise, Melting Glaciers, and North Carolina Law”
- TheGreenGrok (June 7, 2012) - “Climate Politics: North Carolina House Whiffs on Controversial Sea-Level Bill”
- TheGreenGrok (June 25, 2012) - “N.C. Can’t Outlaw Global Climate Change”
-News & Observer
op-ed by by Alan I. Leshner and William L. Chameides (August 1, 2012)
News Coverage of New Law
- Sea-Level Rise Bill Becomes Law
-Star News
article (August 1, 2012) - Perdue Lets Sea-Level Bill Become Law
-News & Observer
article (August 2, 2012)
and: Beverly Perdue, climate science, legislation, North Carolina, North Carolina sea level rise bill, sea level rise
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I share John Droz’ concern and second his remarks. Dr. Chameides is aware the NC law simply requires planners to use empirical tide gauge data to project sea level rise, (rather than computer model projections based on questionable, late 1990s IPCC climate model scenarios). I pointed this out in a previous thread.
If TheGreenGrok was genuinely interested in scientific truth, both sides of this topic (and others) would be presented here without bias. One sided, poorly supported environmental advocacy articles diminish Duke University’s reputation as a leader in science education.
I’m assuming that you have a genuine interest in the truth. As such please also include on your links, an outline of what actually happened regarding NC SLR and H819: “http://tinyurl.com/7nau5nc”. The state legislators were promoting real science here, and should be commended for not capitulating to political pressures.
What is going on with NC and frankly much of the United States over the past decade or so regarding environmental protection? Is it simply free market capitalism? Municipality/States rights? Religious convictions? Pure spite for all things liberal? As a country we cannot successfully mitigate or plan for climate change adaption without most acknowledging there is a problem. Man, I’m baffled about this. Anyway, your group did great work on the fracking research. Mike