Worried About Climate Change? Change The Forecast
The dangers of climate change were revealed to Willo Kelly in a government conference room in the summer of 2011. By the end of the century, state officials said, the ocean would be 39 inches higher and her home on the Outer Banks would be swamped.
Ms. Kelly came up with a creative solution (and no, it didn’t involve lobbying for a carbon tax):
Coastal residents joined forces with climate skeptics to attack the science of global warming and persuade North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature to deep-six the 39-inch projection, which had been advanced under the outgoing Democratic governor. Now, the state is working on a new forecast that will look only 30 years out and therefore show the seas rising by no more than eight inches.
I’d say this is burying your head in the sand, except there doesn’t seem like there will be enough sand left to bury one’s head in before too long.
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Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
20 responses to Worried About Climate Change? Change The Forecast
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mea_mark June 28th, 2014 at 10:44
Brilliant plan, promote ignorance. Gotta love them GOPers.
Pilotshark July 1st, 2014 at 17:51
when the country needs ignorance up front and glaring so stupidly, call a RWNJ.
mea_mark June 28th, 2014 at 10:44
Brilliant plan, promote ignorance. Gotta love them GOPers.
Pilotshark July 1st, 2014 at 17:51
when the country needs ignorance up front and glaring so stupidly, call a RWNJ.
fancypants June 28th, 2014 at 10:52
it works for me ! chances are these are the same people along the beach who keep the 1% rolling along. Can I be at the switch that sends out the warning of a giant title wave before it hits shore ?
fancypants June 28th, 2014 at 10:52
it works for me ! chances are these are the same people along the beach who keep the 1% rolling along. Can I be at the switch that sends out the warning of a giant title wave before it hits shore ?
Obewon June 28th, 2014 at 11:08
D’Nile isn’t just a river that Pharaoh’s scientists predicted flooding & famines along. So Kelly, a lobbyist for Realtors and home builders on the Outer Banks…
Obewon June 28th, 2014 at 11:08
D’Nile isn’t just a river the Pharaoh’s scientists accurately predicted flooding & famines along. So 4 to 10 feet under Kelly, is a lobbyist for Realtors and home builders on the Outer Banks…
Eric Trommater June 28th, 2014 at 18:35
It worked so well for them in Iraq! It’s an old clichè but bears repeating: facts have a liberal bias.
William June 29th, 2014 at 08:42
facts have a liberal bias.
No they don’t. As you can see, the folks over at the fair and balance network are on top of this.
Eric Trommater June 29th, 2014 at 08:52
Rasmussen polls are always so on the money. Ask President Romney!
William June 29th, 2014 at 09:18
Yeah..but that’s because they didn’t poll 120 percent, like they did on global warming.
Eric Trommater June 28th, 2014 at 18:35
It worked so well for them in Iraq! It’s an old clichè but bears repeating: facts have a liberal bias.
William June 29th, 2014 at 08:42
facts have a liberal bias.
No they don’t. As you can see, the folks over at the fair and balance network are on top of this.
Eric Trommater June 29th, 2014 at 08:52
Rasmussen polls are always so on the money. Ask President Romney!
William June 29th, 2014 at 09:18
Yeah..but that’s because they didn’t poll 120 percent, like they did on global warming.
granpa.usthai June 29th, 2014 at 02:29
no problem;
almighty Patrick is right up the coast. For enough ‘love gifts’ he’ll just build a ‘prayer wall’ that will only let the ocean swamp the ‘ungodly’.
‘trust and always pay’
‘for there’s no other way’
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granpa.usthai June 29th, 2014 at 02:29
no problem;
almighty Patrick is right up the coast. For enough ‘love gifts’ he’ll just build a ‘prayer wall’ that will only let the ocean swamp the ‘ungodly’.
‘trust and always pay’
‘for there’s no other way’
….
Pilotshark July 1st, 2014 at 17:48
great, so when your homes go under We The People should not have to help your ignorant a$$es! in fact you should have to be made to pay for any and all help! at lease 3 times the fair market, cause of your ignorance’s!
Pilotshark July 1st, 2014 at 17:48
great, so when your homes go under We The People should not have to help your ignorant a$$es! in fact you should have to be made to pay for any and all help! at lease 3 times the fair market, cause of your ignorance’s!