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tex-wyo-dem

(3,190 posts)
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 12:29 PM Jun 2012

MSNBC: North Carolina GOPers want to ban use of science in planning for global warming

North Carolina GOPers want to ban use of science in planning for global warming

By 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."

<more: http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/01/12010608-north-carolina-gopers-want-to-ban-use-of-science-in-planning-for-global-warming?lite >

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MSNBC: North Carolina GOPers want to ban use of science in planning for global warming (Original Post) tex-wyo-dem Jun 2012 OP
More from Mother Jones... tex-wyo-dem Jun 2012 #1
Great! Sekhmets Daughter Jun 2012 #2
I'm in Wake county ... so I'm hoping for my own ocean front property. JoePhilly Jun 2012 #7
SO what do they use for planning? dreams? Marrah_G Jun 2012 #3
The bible and whatever Gawd whispers in their little ears. kestrel91316 Jun 2012 #4
Clueless NeverEnuff Jun 2012 #5
Sometimes I think they want to force the "rapture" to happen...n/t tex-wyo-dem Jun 2012 #6
They plan on giving their cronies money and smearing anyone they can just1voice Jun 2012 #8

tex-wyo-dem

(3,190 posts)
1. More from Mother Jones...
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 12:35 PM
Jun 2012

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 data—not 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

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
3. SO what do they use for planning? dreams?
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 12:44 PM
Jun 2012

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.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
8. They plan on giving their cronies money and smearing anyone they can
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 07:37 PM
Jun 2012

just like repuke criminals everywhere. Then, we the people will be told to pretend it never happened and "look forward".

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