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“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.
Gut, das Meer darf schon weiter steigen, so blöd sind die nicht in North Carolina. Aber man darf nicht mehr wissenschaftliche Methoden anwenden, um den Anstieg zu prognostizieren, man muss anhand historischer Daten linear extrapolieren.