3rd August 2012, 5:11 AM
Yahoo News? Are you joking?
Anyway, this story is true, but over a month out of date. Yes, they are attempting to legislate reality. The legislature is under the impression that local tide changes don't necessarily reflect tidal changes across the entire coast and thus are not representative of a wider trend.
This is in spite of the fact that climate scientists have already considered this and have concluded that such an interpretation does not fit the facts. Science often comes to conclusions not based on one shattering piece of evidence but on a preponderance of evidence all pointing towards one conclusion. These law makers don't get that, or don't WANT to get that, because it would mean the area they are making laws for is about to be destroyed.
In other news, land owners can point to this law when the housing they sell along the coast there is inevitably flooded, thus not being held responsible.
Anyway, this story is true, but over a month out of date. Yes, they are attempting to legislate reality. The legislature is under the impression that local tide changes don't necessarily reflect tidal changes across the entire coast and thus are not representative of a wider trend.
This is in spite of the fact that climate scientists have already considered this and have concluded that such an interpretation does not fit the facts. Science often comes to conclusions not based on one shattering piece of evidence but on a preponderance of evidence all pointing towards one conclusion. These law makers don't get that, or don't WANT to get that, because it would mean the area they are making laws for is about to be destroyed.
In other news, land owners can point to this law when the housing they sell along the coast there is inevitably flooded, thus not being held responsible.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)