來自北卡羅來納州的世界海洋日快樂!

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今天是世界海洋日(在北卡羅來納州,今天是“不,才不是!”日),所以現在似乎是時候對Plugged-In部落格上大約一週前釋出的關於北卡州議會正在考慮一項法律的帖子進行非常簡短的後續報道,該法律將使你嘗試弄清楚海洋在下個世紀可能做什麼的行為在各種程度上都變成非法。反過來,這引起了一些人對在我的北卡羅來納州被視為立法的純粹瘋狂行為的關注。

自那時以來的一些訊息很糟糕——我收到了很多反對意見(在我的Facebook頁面上查詢,在6月1日),說我的帖子是“歇斯底里的北卡羅來納州抨擊”,因為該立法僅僅是提出來的,並沒有真正的支持者。好吧,情況已經改變:該立法自那時以來已經一致通過了北卡州參議院的環境、農業和自然資源委員會,並且其公開的支持者是州參議員大衛·魯澤,一位共和黨“後起之秀”,目前正尋求將其“科學是愚蠢的”資訊帶到美國國會。北卡州參議院或許對在世界海洋日考慮如此荒謬的事情感到羞愧,將在下週進一步討論此事。

一些訊息更好。科爾伯特報告節目批評了北卡州立法者的愚蠢行為,這有助於引起更多人關注北卡州和海洋的現實。


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像我這樣的北卡羅來納州人仍然希望,揭露此事將阻止這項立法走得更遠,但話又說回來,我們認為第一次揭露它就會阻止它繼續推進。儘管全世界都在嘲笑他們,但委員會成員還是一致投票決定繼續推進。所以我們的希望雖然很高,但還是降低了。

順便說一句——如果您想知道,這是北卡州海岸資源委員會最初要求然後拒絕的報告

這裡,再次是原始立法,它希望不僅禁止任何非海岸管理部門的人員制定海平面上升估算(包括許多人擔心的大學科學部門本身),而且禁止任何人根據歷史記錄的線性預測來做出這樣的估算。

所以:來自北卡羅來納州的世界海洋日快樂,我們中的一些人預計在下個世紀將有更多的海洋可以熱愛,而另一些人則想把我們這些相信這一點的人關進監獄。

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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