https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/01/16/nc-insurers-want-to-nearly-double-rates-for-coastal-homeowners/72179676007/

  • Runcible [none/use name]
    hexbear
    16
    5 months ago

    This reminded me of some bullshit where they had passed a law either forbidding action based on coast line change or forbidding monitoring of it IIRC.

    Here's an article if anyone wants it but it starts out pretty strong https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/12/north-carolina-didnt-like-science-on-sea-levels-so-passed-a-law-against-it

    "In 2012, the state now in the path of Hurricane Florence reacted to a prediction by its Coastal Resources Commission that sea levels could rise by 39in over the next century by passing a law that banned policies based on such forecasts."

    • @sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      11
      5 months ago

      The government forbidding people of talking about a past or imminent disaster is what people claim happens in socialist countries... it's really always projection, isn't it?