Open AccessAssessing the response of the Gulf Coast to global change
Author(s) -
Anderson John B.,
Törnqvist Torbjörn E.,
Day John
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2012eo450005
Subject(s) - sea level rise , legislation , oceanography , bay , climate change , geography , political science , archaeology , law , geology
Gulf Coastal Science Consortium Workshop;Houston, Texas, 28–29 June 2012 The newly formed Gulf Coastal Science Consortium held its first workshop at Rice University. The creation of the consortium was prompted by two recent incidents. One incident involved censorship of a book chapter on Galveston Bay by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that omitted all references to climate change and accelerated sea‐level rise. The other incident was the adoption of legislation in North Carolina that requires planners and developers to assume a linear sea‐level rise projection, despite compelling scientific evidence for a multifold increase in sea‐level rise in historical time.