Someone needs to tell these guys about King Canute and the tides. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#Ruler_of_the_waves
When I was with one contracting firm, another of their government contracts was to map the increase in the mean sea level along the east coast over the next 50 years. From what I remember North Caroline is going to have a lot more sea front property over the next while. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And next they are going to make it illegal for the sky to be blue. > > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/ > > 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." > > (NOTE: I know it is an opinion piece, but it's a funn > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351682 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
