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By Scott Huler | May 30, 2012
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You think Im kidding, but listen to me: Im from North Carolina, and thats how we roll. We take what we want to be reality, and we just make it law. So Im having my state senator introduce legislation writing into law all the stuff I mentioned above. This is North Carolina, state motto: Because thats how I WANT it to be.
You know, of course, about our passing May 8 of Amendment One, which has now written into our constitution anti-marriage discrimination against anyone who doesnt fit one groups image of marriage. Its just as ugly as it sounds just as ugly as the last time we wrote such marriage discrimination into our constitution, in 1875, when instead of protecting us against the idea of same-sex couples marrying, it was protecting us against racial miscegenation down to the third generation, mind you. Good times!
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Heres a link to the circulated Replacement House Bill 819. The key language is in section 2, paragraph e, talking about rates of sea level rise: These rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of seas-level rise may be extrapolated linearly. It goes on, but theres the core: North Carolina legislators have decided that the way to make exponential increases in sea level rise caused by those inconvenient feedback loops we keep hearing about from scientists go away is to make it against the law to extrapolate exponential; we can only extrapolate along a line predicted by previous sea level rises.
Which, yes, is exactly like saying, do not predict tomorrows weather based on radar images of a hurricane swirling offshore, moving west towards us with 60-mph winds and ten inches of rain. Predict the weather based on the last two weeks of fair weather with gentle breezes towards the east. Dont use radar and barometers; use the Farmers Almanac and what grandpa remembers.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)and then moved to FL. So you see, I can't win for losing! I'm proud of neither state and ashamed I have to claim either one of them as home.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Nothing to worry about then!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Gas gauges too? When I had a full tank last week, I should be able to see that full tank every time right? And if it's not there, did someone steal it from me? I'm confused. Just when we thought they couldn't get ANY crazier, now this.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Now we can drive to Ocrakoke and not have that long ferry ride.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the state does`t have to pay any monetary claims and infrastructural repair. the legislation would let the major home owners and business insurance companies off the hook for claims.
at least two years ago the insurance underwriters realized the seas were rising and has started adjusting their rates.....
thucythucy
(8,066 posts)Next up: banning those pesky telescopes, the ones Galileo used to demonstrate that the earth orbits around the sun.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)they are now using a marching band.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Bananas (1971)
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)That way a linear fit is equivalent to an exponential curve. Problem solved.
Anybody who is that abysmally stupid to write such a bill is also stupid enough to fall for that cheap mathematical trick.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)daaron
(763 posts)Orsino
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