Demea wrote:
I don't understand the problem (and I'm at work, so I can't watch the Colbert).
You're incredulous because North Carolina wants to limit the way in which one of their agencies can calculate future predicted sea levels? Or that they want to limit it to linear regression dating back only over a century and change?
Only the NC state agency can calculate sea level rise, and that agency can only use a linear formula for extrapolation.
Climate change aside all variables may not lead to a linear rate of sea rise.
National Flood Insurance is a federal program.
Private Insurance companies don't care if all your calculations, mandated by your short-sighted law-makers conclude that an area is not in a flood zone.
It's tells the experts how to do their job - down to what math to use.
What if NY passed a law telling stock-brokers that only the NY State Agency that governs banks could make market predictions and that they'd only make those predictions with this one over-simplified, highly-limiting formula?
Are these the same people wanting government 'out of their lives'?
Edited, Jun 5th 2012 10:25pm by Elinda