After North Carolina was hit by two major hurricanes within two years and flooding rainfall from a third, the state that once spurned the science of sea level rise in its zoning rules is starting to take climate change more seriously.
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| Days of rain from Hurricane Florence flooded homes across a wide area of North Carolina in September 2018. In Spring Lake, nearly 100 miles from the coast, Bob Richling carried items from a home as the Little River flooded. |
A new governor has a different policy agenda that incorporates the risks from climate change, and polls suggest a growing number of North Carolina residents are concerned about climate change and want policies that help protect them from extreme weather.
Read the Inside Climate News story by James Bruggers - “After Back-to-Back Hurricanes, North Carolina Reconsiders Climate Change.”
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