North Carolina considers outlawing accurate predictions of sea level rise

http://io9.com/5914378/north-carolina-considers-outlawing-accurate-predictions-of-sea-level-rise

Umm, wat?

5/31/2012 1:03:22 PM

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5/31/2012 1:05:35 PM

They're done wasting our tax dollars on Amendment One. Now they need something else to waste our tax dollars on instead of working on the economy.

5/31/2012 1:08:04 PM

How will they enforce it? Will they charge people with a crime and throw them in jail.

5/31/2012 1:17:44 PM

It should be illegal for legislators to waste time on bullshit like this.

5/31/2012 1:46:05 PM

COME ON AND RAISE UP (sea levels)

5/31/2012 2:07:09 PM

Quote :

"Things like marriage rules involve changing social mores and those who feel that certain types of marriage are wrong can be understood and even forgiven. They're certainly on the wrong side of history, but it's a social issue where emotion understandably holds sway over things like evidence. But while the rising sea may engender emotion, it exists in a world of fact, of measurable evidence and predictable results, where scientists using their best methods have agreed on a reasonable – and conservative – estimate of a meter or more of rising seas in the coming century."

qft

5/31/2012 2:16:49 PM

Quote :

""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 there’s 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 tomorrow’s 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. Don’t use radar and barometers; use the Farmer’s Almanac and what grandpa remembers.""

5/31/2012 2:22:53 PM

Like I said in the other thread, the silver lining here is that it delays (hopefully avoids) those morons from building sea walls, which will likely be highly encouraged by their wealthy hotel developer backers...


It really looks as though they have their

....head in the sand.

YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH

5/31/2012 2:50:07 PM

that they think this is even remotely acceptable is a really bad sign.

5/31/2012 3:04:33 PM

Quote :

"COME ON AND RAISE UP (sea levels) "

....like a helicopter hurricane

5/31/2012 3:28:16 PM

North Carolina Defunds Planned Parenthood In Midnight Vote, Overriding Veto

North Carolina's Republican-controlled state legislature voted Monday night to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a state budget that strips money from Planned Parenthood.

The same lawmakers overrode Perdue's veto and moved to defund Planned Parenthood last year, but a judge blocked the provision, arguing that a state can't single out a particular health provider. This time around, lawmakers found a way to sidestep legal challenges by not specifically naming Planned Parenthood in the budget. Instead, the bill prevents the state's Health and Human Services department from contracting with "private providers" of family planning services -- effectively, but not explicitly, singling out Planned Parenthood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/north-carolina-planned-parenthood_n_1646466.html

7/3/2012 8:29:23 PM

Since when did Chit Chat become the Soap Box?

7/3/2012 8:32:53 PM

everytim NC is in teh national news?

7/3/2012 8:36:31 PM

^^^ So? I can afford condoms. It's not my problem you can't.

7/3/2012 8:39:44 PM

i'm sure that's what planned parenthood is all about, merbig

7/3/2012 8:42:31 PM

Quote :

"Based on these beliefs, and reflecting the diverse communities within which we operate, the mission of Planned Parenthood is to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings which preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual to advocate public policies which guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services to provide educational programs which enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications"

Tldr: we provide a service to teach the use and reason to use contraceptives, to help make these available and to promote further development.

My response: I can afford a condom, which also implies that I know how to use it too. Whereas you don't. So fuck PP. if you can't figure this shit out, don't have sex.

So yes, that is what they're all about.

7/3/2012 9:05:46 PM

You keep missing the meaning of 'all'.

7/3/2012 9:13:41 PM

What about the jerbs jerbs jerbs!?!?! Jesus, NC Republicans are just as repugnant as national ones. 150+ years of repressed regressivism run amuck, folks!

7/3/2012 9:17:21 PM

Quote :

"to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications"

You don't need state funding to promote anything. All you need is a mouth piece.

So nope, nothing missed.

7/3/2012 9:38:29 PM

merbig....are all your posts this bad?

7/3/2012 9:40:44 PM

They also provide wellness checkups, cancer screenings, etc for women who otherwise couldn't afford it. It's not just about baby making.

7/3/2012 9:41:30 PM

^ Right. I forgot. It's about sexism too.

7/3/2012 9:43:10 PM

I'm sure you could get a doctor there to check your balls for cancer if you asked nicely and could prove you're poor.

7/3/2012 9:45:10 PM

And I'm sure you could get a doctor to feel your tits if you just asked, regardless of wealth.

7/3/2012 9:47:28 PM