Commentary: Add rising sea levels to the list of banned terms

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/17/152200/commentary-add-rising-sea-levels.html

Fred Grimm | The Miami Herald
Fred Grimm The Miami Herald

It must be frustrating for our guys in Tallahassee. The governor and the legislative leadership have made it plenty clear that they have no use for this global warming stuff. Yet climate scientists keep dumping water on Florida’s future.

The latest damper comes from Climate Central, which just published two papers in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters, warning that due to global warming and rising sea levels, 3.7 million Americans reside in areas with an escalating risk of storm surge and coastal flooding. Half of them are in Florida. South Florida comes out looking particularly soggy.

Last year, Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions warned that rising sea levels will back up drainage canals, inundate roads, farms and low-lying neighborhoods, cause sewage systems and septic tanks to fail and inject salt water into water wells.

Obviously, something needs to be done. About those damn scientists, of course. Not global warming.

Like-minded legislators and state officials in Texas, Virginia and North Carolina — states with their own coastal vulnerabilities — have shown Florida just how to deal with such annoyances. They erase offending words and passages. They made it flat out illegal for state planners and zoning officials to refer to nettlesome scientific findings that might hurt coastal property values.

[Bozita]

1. Beliefs trump facts every time in GOPerWorld.

Coming soon: Witchcraft trials for scientists

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2. We've known for decades that sea levels are going to rise and result in mass deaths!

I remember hearing about that in elementary school. It seems like after forty years of this fact know that it is going to happen soon, how can these people be so stupid?