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North Carolina citizens have a chance to comment on their perceptions of the risk from a rise in sea level and what to do about it.
The state Division of Coastal Management said the online poll will help identify perceptions held by the public as it develops a policy on the issue.
Tancred Miller is the primary author of the survey and says the state is seeking everyone's perception regardless of their knowledge about the topic or whether they believe it.
The survey is here at www.nccoastalmanagement.net. Curious as to the questions, I took the survey - of course identifying myself as a resident of Virginia Beach and the Sierra Club as my affiliate organization. The survey is on the flip. What's interesting is the items suggested as possible adaptations and mitigation. I wonder how well a survey such as this would go over in Virginia.
(Thanks, Skip. It is indeed inexcusable and definitely something we'll be looking for in our candidates' policy plans. Skip Stiles is the Executive Director of Wetlands Watch and serves on the Governor's Climate Change Commission. - promoted by Eileen)
Wetlands Watch testified before two subcommittees of the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee as they held a hearing last Tuesday looking at Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay. Wetlands Watch's conclusion was that Virginia is far from ready for climate change and the state's inaction is "inexcusable." The full text is on Wetlands Watch's web site.
Wetlands Watch Executive Director cited the increasing danger to Virginia posed by climate change and sea level rise, pointed to numerous local governments being left to wander "alone and blind on an increasingly dangerous terrain," and listed some simple first steps the state and federal governments could take.
The simplest first step is for Virginia to start working down the checklist of suggestions made by its own Climate Change Commission - the adaptation strategy in the Commission's report is a solid, comprehensive proposal.
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