By After keeping a climate study secret for nearly two years, South Carolina’s wildlife agency publicly released the report in the spring of 2013 amid criticism that it had bottled up the information for political reasons. The study called on the wildlife department to take a leadership role in addressing a variety of climate-related problems — ranging from the invasion of exotic wildlife to extensive flooding — that were expected as temperatures increase, rains fall harder and seas rise. But the wildlife department report wasn’t the only study to call for action on climate in South Carolina. Five years earlier, a special task force appointed by Gov. Mark Sanford recommended more than 50 ways to stop rising greenhouse gas pollution from worsening global warming. Today, those reports remain on the shelf in a state where residents are increasingly feeling the uncomfortable effects of climate change. Criticized by powerful electric […]