来自北卡罗来纳州的世界海洋日快乐!

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今天是世界海洋日(在北卡罗来纳州,今天是“不,才不是!”日),所以现在似乎是时候对Plugged-In博客上大约一周前发布的关于北卡州议会正在考虑一项法律的帖子进行非常简短的后续报道,该法律将使你尝试弄清楚海洋在下个世纪可能做什么的行为在各种程度上都变成非法。反过来,这引起了一些人对在我的北卡罗来纳州被视为立法的纯粹疯狂行为的关注。

自那时以来的一些消息很糟糕——我收到了很多反对意见(在我的Facebook页面上查找,在6月1日),说我的帖子是“歇斯底里的北卡罗来纳州抨击”,因为该立法仅仅是提出来的,并没有真正的支持者。好吧,情况已经改变:该立法自那时以来已经一致通过了北卡州参议院的环境、农业和自然资源委员会,并且其公开的支持者是州参议员大卫·鲁泽,一位共和党“后起之秀”,目前正寻求将其“科学是愚蠢的”信息带到美国国会。北卡州参议院或许对在世界海洋日考虑如此荒谬的事情感到羞愧,将在下周进一步讨论此事。

一些消息更好。科尔伯特报告节目批评了北卡州立法者的愚蠢行为,这有助于引起更多人关注北卡州和海洋的现实。


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像我这样的北卡罗来纳州人仍然希望,揭露此事将阻止这项立法走得更远,但话又说回来,我们认为第一次揭露它就会阻止它继续推进。尽管全世界都在嘲笑他们,但委员会成员还是一致投票决定继续推进。所以我们的希望虽然很高,但还是降低了。

顺便说一句——如果您想知道,这是北卡州海岸资源委员会最初要求然后拒绝的报告

这里,再次是原始立法,它希望不仅禁止任何非海岸管理部门的人员制定海平面上升估算(包括许多人担心的大学科学部门本身),而且禁止任何人根据历史记录的线性预测来做出这样的估算。

所以:来自北卡罗来纳州的世界海洋日快乐,我们中的一些人预计在下个世纪将有更多的海洋可以热爱,而另一些人则想把我们这些相信这一点的人关进监狱。

 

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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