{"id":1027,"date":"2014-10-25T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-10-25T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:30:48","slug":"could-florida-split-into-two-states-over-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/25\/could-florida-split-into-two-states-over-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Florida split into two states over climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/files\/2014\/10\/Sea-Level-Rise-in-Southern-Florida.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1029\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/files\/2014\/10\/Sea-Level-Rise-in-Southern-Florida-300x294.png\" alt=\"Sea Level Rise in Southern Florida\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/files\/2014\/10\/Sea-Level-Rise-in-Southern-Florida-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/files\/2014\/10\/Sea-Level-Rise-in-Southern-Florida.png 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The City Commission and Mayor of South Miami recently passed a resolution calling for South Florida to split away from North Florida over climate change. They cite inaction from a more conservative North Florida as a key reason for splitting. Sea level rise will have drastic effects on Southern Florida as much of the coast line is very close to sea level with much topographic change over great distances. A good calculator for sea level rise can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/ss2.climatecentral.org\/#10\/26.6020\/-81.9745?show=satellite&amp;level=1&amp;pois=show\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this develops and if South Florida is actually able to split or if the politics will be sorted out and they can do more on climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the new South Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/10\/24\/florida-split-state-climate-change\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Commission and Mayor of South Miami recently passed a resolution calling for South Florida to split away from North Florida over climate change. They cite inaction from a more conservative North Florida as a key reason for splitting. Sea level rise will have drastic effects on Southern Florida as much of the coast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/25\/could-florida-split-into-two-states-over-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could Florida split into two states over climate change?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1899,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mosaic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}