A four year moratorium on any sort of action, during which time more study can be accomplished, is just what this issue needed (Under the Dome)!
Since the House spurned a Senate proposal to put strict controls on the science of predicting how fast the seas will rise along North Carolina's coast, legislators have been working on a compromise. They are preparing next week to consider a gentler but more complicated approach toward the same goal: slow down that scary forecast, The N&O's Bruce Siceloff reports.
The state Coastal Resources Commission would be required to wait four years, until July 2016, before it authorizes any sea-level forecast to be used as the basis for coastal regulations, according to legislation worked out this week by a House-Senate conference committee. Scientists would be required to consider a sweeping range of views -- including predictions that the sea level will fall -- as they develop new forecasts.
A better solution might be to require the CRC to wait 92 years. Then, all of the uncertainty can be resolved.
Here is a link to the previous posts.
