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North Carolina GOPers want to ban use of science in planning for global warmingBy Zachary Roth - Fri Jun 1, 2012 2:29 PM EDT
Just in case you thought climate-change denialism couldn't get any dumber or more destructive, North Carolina Republicans are here to show you it can.
Via Joe Romm, some GOP state lawmakers are pushing a bill that would literally force local authorities to ignore science-based projections in planning for future sea-level rise.
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As a geology professor and member of the state's science panel pointed out, the proposed law runs counter to the findings of every major science organization on the globe."
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tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)North Carolina Wishes Away Climate Change
By Kate Sheppard | Fri Jun. 1, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
Some lawmakers will go to great lengths to deny the reality of climate change. But this week, North Carolina lawmakers reached new heights of denial, proposing a new law that would require estimates of sea level rise to be based only on historical datanot on all the evidence that demonstrates that the seas are rising much faster now thanks to global warming.
more: http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/05/north-carolina-wishes-away-climate-change
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)An ocean view from the Great Smokey Mountains....I could go for that.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Or maybe they just don't intend to plan at all since they can pray away the climate change.......
I do not ever want to leave New England.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Biblical Prophecy? They figure to be gone in the Rapture.
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)just1voice
(1,362 posts)just like repuke criminals everywhere. Then, we the people will be told to pretend it never happened and "look forward".