"Climate skeptics oppose preparations for rising sea levels" by Darryl Fears Washington Post / December 25, 2011
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"Climate skeptics in Va. oppose preparations for sea-level rise" Monday, December 19, 2011 By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post
WTF, Globe?
When planners redesignated property as a future flood zone, activists said officials were acting on a hoax. They argued in meetings and on websites that local planners are unwitting agents of Agenda 21, a United Nations environmental action plan adopted in 1992 that the activists see as a shadowy global conspiracy to grab land and redistribute wealth in the United States....
See: UN Agenda 21 - Coming to a Neighborhood near You
What else would you call it?
Agenda 21 is an agenda in name only, environmentalists say. The document encourages world governments to consider environmental impacts before developing land or slashing rain forests for resources, said Patty Glick, senior climate-change specialist for the National Wildlife Federation.
"Agenda 21 is the least thing they should be worried about," said Ms. Glick, who like other environmentalists contacted by The Washington Post was surprised at the attention being given the document. "It has no legal or policy implication for local governments in the United States."
Donna Holt, leader of the Virginia Campaign for Liberty, a tea party affiliate with 7,000 members, began scrutinizing public planning when her interior design business failed after the housing bubble burst, begs to differ. She sees the document as evidence of a global agenda that threatens property rights....
Lewis Lawrence, acting executive director of the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, and other planners have asked counselors for advice on how to control testy audiences. They were told to better explain their plans and recognize people who speak up but also to get rid of standing microphones where angry speakers line up....
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