From the Editor

In a move that immediately became irresistible fodder for late night comics and editorial cartoonists, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature this summer approved a law that bars state agencies from considering scientific predictions of how much sea-level rise will impact the state’s coastline. Cue the references to King Canute and his infamous decree for the tides to halt. “If your science gives you a result you don’t like, pass a law saying the result is illegal,” Stephen Colbert joked. “Problem solved.”

The darkly hilarious episode could be considered just the latest evidence of the …more

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