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Rick Perry's administration has forced a report on the effects of climate change on Texas to remove all references to, well, climate change. But that doesn't change what's happening to the state's climate. Scientists associated with a major study of environmental changes in the low-lying coastal region around Galveston, Texas, have withdrawn their names from the final report after high-level officials appointed by Governor Rick Perry removed references to sea level rise and climate change from the document.

The Lone Star State may win the honor simply because it controls the ocean farther from the coast than most states, and the state has virtually no regulations when it comes to building. Cape Wind--the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. to receive the go-ahead for construction--has been mired in Kennedy-centered political problems for a decade