NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions

ideonexus writes "Republicans in North Carolina are floating a bill that would force planners to only consider historical data in predicting the sea-level rise (SLR) for the state as opposed to considering projections that take Global Warming into account. NC-20, the pro-development lobbying group representing twenty counties along the NC coast, is behind the effort and asserts that the one-meter prediction would prohibit development on too much land as opposed to SLR predictions of 3.9 to 15.6 inches." Scientific American has an acerbic take on the bill.

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Re:Hard to insure

[ravenshrike]

Well, until they look at how historically the GW sourced sea level rise predictions have been quite a bit off as well.