ha ha ha ha North Carolina. Advocate for sure. For property values. lol Glub glub glub billions in dredging, seawalls, destroyed property drowned people. Coastal marshes have no where to go but away. Beaches will become rare.
Why don't you take a look at Doug Rader and his long history of environmental advocacy instead of simply poking fun at one of the influential leaders in preserving our fisheries and coastal environment. North Carolina does not allow sea walls on barrier islands BTW - when the beach rolls back you are going to lose your house.
It really doesn't matter who he is. When the ocean is three feet higher in a hundred years all that coastal stuff will be under water.
How can it be outdated? There was a consensus. Does 97% mean nothing to you FutureCurrents? The nerve of some people.
and NOAA said[bold, underline and blue mine]: "The graphs compare the 95% confidence intervals of relative mean sea level trends for CO-OPS and global stations. Trends with the narrowest confidence intervals are based on the longest data sets. Trends with the widest confidence intervals are based on only 30-40 years of data. The graphs can provide an overarching indication of the differing rates of regional vertical land motion, given that the absolute global sea level rise is believed to be 1.7-1.8 millimeters/year. Note that they are relative sea level trends, and are not corrected for local land movement. The calculated trends for all CO-OPS stations are available as a table in millimeters/year and in feet/century. A complete table of non-CO-OPS station trends are available as a table in millimeters/year and in feet/century." http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/globalregional.htm
On this subject, here is an good article from today's Raleigh News & Observer that outlines the conflict in our state over Flounder fishing. Regulators are caught in the middle between commercial fishermen, recreational fishermen, and conservationists. "The stakes are large: Ninety-six percent of all the southern flounder that went into commercial markets in the United States in 2013 came from North Carolina waters. Last year, 1.7 million pounds were caught that sold to dealers for $4.8 million." Fish wars swirl around NC’s diminishing southern flounder http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article35048997.html