North Carolina Legislature Prepares to Ban Sea From Rising!

Published on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 by Common Dreams
North Carolina Legislature Prepares to Ban Sea From Rising!
by Richard Schiffman

Once upon a time, the great King Canute, strolling on a beach with his courtiers, ordered the waves to halt. Yet they kept on coming. It was a lesson intended for the monarch's fawning sycophants. Canute was showing them that there are limits to power. Even a king can't stop the sea!

This lesson seems to have been lost on the members of North Carolina's legislature. They are getting ready to vote on a bill that would prohibit government agencies from preparing for the estimated three feet rise in coastal sea levels which a state-appointed science panel has predicted will occur before the end of the current century.

Not only that, but the forecast of the experts may soon be stricken from the public record-- because it takes into account the impact of Global Warming. And Global Warming isn't happening, right?

Sounds like something you would read in the satirical weekly, the Onion. But no, it's right there in the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina's leading newspaper. The headline reads: "Coastal N.C. counties fighting sea-level rise prediction." These counties, the paper says, have banned together to pressure the state's lawmakers to excise the bad news about the ocean from the report of the N.C. Coastal Resources Commission.

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