{"id":12812,"date":"2014-05-19T02:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2014-05-19T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:32:54","slug":"climate-teabuggery-strikes-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/climate-teabuggery-strikes-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate TEAbuggery Strikes NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Super-rich developers are hard at work creating properties in North Carolina, fully aware that, in all probability, by the turn of the century, those properties will no longer exist.&#160; The level of dishonesty from Republican officials can only be described as TEAbuggery!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0519ClimateNC\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0519ClimateNC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0519ClimateNC.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"270\" \/>The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission has found a solution to the political impasse posed by the conflict between science, which predicts the acceleration of sea level rise as the glaciers of western Antarctica collapse into the Southern Ocean, and Republican, money-driven politics tied to coastal development. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/05\/15\/3449515\/ncs-next-sea-level-forecast-will.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Coastal Commission voted to ignore long-term sea level rise.<\/a> <strong>The Commission voted, with one lone dissent, to limit the period of consideration of sea level rise to 30 years. Keeping the period to 30 years allowed the Commission to avoid considering the consequences of the collapse of west Antarctic glaciers, the speed up of the melting of Greenland&#8217;s ice cap and the slowing of the Gulf Stream.<\/strong> This vote will end the conflict between the Republican dominated state legislature and the Commission that happened in 2010 when the Commission&#8217;s panel of experts predicted as much as 5 feet of sea level rise by 2100. <strong>The legislature rejected that report and prohibited state and local government offices from considering the possibility that sea level rise would accelerate<\/strong>\u2026&#160; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/05\/16\/1299816\/-North-Carolina-Coastal-Commission-Votes-to-Ignore-Long-Term-Sea-Level-Rise\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The article goes on the show how it is happening now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQMtb1Pd07E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for more.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope that those new properties the millionaires, that own the Republicans, are selling come with SCUBA gear!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super-rich developers are hard at work creating properties in North Carolina, fully aware that, in all probability, by the turn of the century, those properties will no longer exist.&#160; The level of dishonesty from Republican officials can only be described as TEAbuggery! The North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission has found a solution to the political <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/climate-teabuggery-strikes-nc\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}