North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would use historical record rather than scientific methodology to predict rising sea levels. It鈥檚 in response to a report released by the , predicting that the sea level will rise 39 inches by 2100. Host Frank Stasio will speak to scientist , the director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines and professor of Coastal Geology at Western Carolina University, about the fall-out from the report.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Shawn Wen joined the staff of The State of Things in March 2012 and served as associate producer until February 2014.