Has North Carolina taken action?

Yes, but only by passing a law preventing state officials from using the prediction of rising sea levels to make coastal development decisions. More recently, President Trump reversed Obama’s executive order, so that federally funded construction projects do not have to take climate change into account. Scott Pruitt, Trump’s former Environmental Protection Agency director, called it “insensitive” to discuss climate change when a hurricane strikes. Irwin Redlener, director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, warns that we continue to ignore what nature is telling us at our peril. “We keep calling these storms a wake-up call, but they keep turning into a snooze alarm,” Redlener said. “When the cameras go away, we slip into complacency.”