From John Hastings
Apart from the miserable failure of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, surely the most disturbing recent report in New Scientist was that on legislators in North Carolina debating a bill forbidding coastal managers from predicting that sea-level rises will accelerate (30 June, p 5). And the bill was passed by the state’s Senate before being rejected by its House of Representatives.
If a state legislature can even contemplate trying to pass such laws, then we really are in a desperate situation.
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, UK
