{"id":30864,"date":"2012-06-15T18:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=30864"},"modified":"2012-06-15T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T22:52:53","slug":"north-carolina-bans-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/north-carolina-bans-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Bans Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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I don’t understand why a state would outlaw climate change. North Carolina\u00a0is on the sea and if the water levels rise it would kill their tourism industry, which in turn would almost bankrupt the state. A lot of people go to the beaches in the state for vacations and spend tons of money there.\u00a0So, wouldn’t it make better sense to fight climate change than try to outlaw it?<\/p>\n

Makes no\u00a0sense to me, but I’m sure in the near future they will regret doing this. Especially when they lose millions in tourism dollars.<\/p>\n

North Carolina is no stranger to the \u201cif you dislike it then you should have made a law against it\u201d model of legislation, but this is extreme: the state General Assembly\u2019s Replacement House Bill 819<\/strong><\/a> would rule that scientists are not allowed to accurately predict sea-level rise<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

By all legal calculations, the sea level will now rise eight inches by the end of the century. Sure, so far models have predicted an increase of more than three feet, but if they keep that stuff up, they\u2019re going to JAIL. OK, there\u2019s not really a prison sentence attached to this proposed rule, but you see, actual sea-level rise is nonlinear, because there\u2019s feedback.\u00a0The warmer it gets, the more the water volume expands, and the more stuff melts, and the more it expands, etc. That\u2019s how most scientific models arrive at their predictions, because that is how physics works.<\/p>\n

But an increase that big is extremely inconvenient for a state with a beach-based tourist trade. So, North Carolina\u2019s solution is simple: change how physics works, or at least change how people do physics. Accordingly, this bill mandates that models use a linear increase \u2014 a consistent amount of change every year, based on historical data. This will lead to predictions that are much less catastrophic, and much more reassuring for people building resorts in the Outer Banks. The predictions will also be flat-out wrong, but that\u2019s nothing new for North Carolina.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s not obvious why this is stupid, look at it this way: in 1790, the year North Carolina is stuck in, the population<\/a> was about 400,000. In 1900, it was 1.9 million. That\u2019s an increase of 1.5 million in 110 years \u2014 so if there were an analogous rule for population, the state would have prepared for 3.4 million residents in 2010, which might cause some strife among the 9.7 million people who live there now. But, you know, whatever’s the law is the law, so forget you, math. If the 6.3 million people unaccounted for by the legal model wanted housing and services, they should have fallen in line with North Carolina reality.<\/p>\n

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