Counteracting and Confronting The Lies Locally - a local story (North Carolina headsup!)

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2. They are being given the run-around and have no intention of showing the film.

So the vigilance needs to be directed at confronting the Museum for its decision not to show the film, as well as at the amendments and its supporters who have attempted to block the science.

As the INDY reported in June 2012, the law restricts the ability of state agencies to accurately forecast and prepare for sea-level rise. As a result, developers could continue to profit from building in vulnerable, low-lying coastal areas free of additional regulations that would apply if the state accounted for higher seas.

The law was a victory for NC-20, a nonprofit governmental group stacked with coastal development and real estate interests, who successfully persuaded a science panel of the Coastal Resources Commission to significantly change its policy proposal. Those amendments included restricting state and local governments to using only select historical data to predict sea-level rise. Under those conditions, the forecast is not 3 feet, but 8 inches.