I haven’t ranted about anything for a while but this definitely comes from the stupid category… Looks like North Carolina state senators didn’t like the scientific evidence of climate change they were presented so they made it illegal to use the current climate model. I’ve said it many times, the US is going backwards in terms of progress…

Political satirist Stephen Colbert’s solution to unfavourable climate science is simple: “If your science gives you a result that you don’t like, pass a law saying that the result is illegal. Problem solved.”

Legislators in North Carolina are apparently of the same mindset. When a state-appointed commission announced that North Carolinians could expect 39 inches of sea-level rise by 2100, the Senate responded with a bill that legally prevents the Division of Coastal Management from using the climate model that forecasts fast-rising sea levels. Instead, the legislators would like to see coastal management use only a linear model, which predicts a mere 8-inch rise by the same year.
Source: NewScientist

Yeah well I’m at a loss for words here! I mean seriously what’s the point of hiring scientists when the politicians “know better”… Too bad for the coastal residents of that state I guess.