Southern Florida Threatens to Secede Due to Fear of Climate Change

cnsnews ^ | Oct. 23, 2014 | Dan Joseph

[PROCON]

Threats of a state seceding from the country, or a part of a state creating its own state due to political differences, typically don’t go anywhere.

Well, except for that one time in the 1860’s.

Texas and Vermont both threatened to do so out of frustration with the policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, but both remain part of the United States. There have been several attempts over the last few decades to carve Californian up into as many as six separate states.

Now, some in Southern Florida are toying with the possibility of launching a secession effort from the northern part of the state.

Why would the heavily liberal area consider sacrificing their share of all that sweet, sweet, Disney related tax revenue? Apparently it’s because the government in Tallahassee isn’t doing enough to combat climate change.

South Miami Mayor Walter Harris believes that rising sea levels due to global warming will cause the everglades to disappear and possibly lead to a nuclear disaster.

[palmer]

about an inch per decade.

[rrrod]

S. Florida is over ridden with Northern lib scum, Haitians gangs and a generation welfare Cubanos(unlike the previous Cubans)....of all the Northern libscum are the worst!

Wife’s family recently moved from Coral Springs( which is supposed to be a great area, except the schools) to Tampa. They say the love living int the USA LOL.

[scooby321]

Destin Florida here, I'll take our environment Politically and environmentally all day over South Florida

Please leave you will see put it on the ballot and it would pass the 60% votes needed

[BwanaNdege]

Haven’t sea levels risen only about 1 inch over the last 100 years?

Tasmanian Sea Levels

Fig.1 - The benchmark at mean tide

" Recent publicity arising from a study by the Universities of Southampton and Tasmania [1] of an old sea level benchmark at Port Arthur, Tasmania, claims `dramatic' sea level rise of about 13cm since the mark was first struck back in 1841.

These claims are based primarily on statistical probability models and are unsupportable when viewed in the context of other physical and documentary evidence available surrounding the benchmark. The study claims the benchmark was originally set 44.5cm above the mean level of the sea (as it then existed in 1841). Since it now sits at 31.5 cm above (see fig.1), the difference - 13cm - is claimed to be evidence of sea level rise.

However, the man responsible for putting the mark there, explorer Sir James Clark Ross stated explicitly and several times in his 1846 book [3] that the mark was placed at MSL (as he estimated it to be), not at a point 44.5cm above, near the high tide point, as claimed by the study. Other evidence surrounding the original placing of the benchmark is less clear, but we do have one positive measurement of where the benchmark stood relative to sea level taken in 1888 by the then Government meteorologist, Commander J. Shortt R.N. He found the mark to be 34cm above sea level - only 2½ cm different to its current position [7] [5]."

[Lionheartusa1]

BYE !

[Shimmer1]

I was born and raised there. (Central FL)

[Gen.Blather]

http://www.conchrepublic.com/history.htm

The already seceded once. I was down there at the time and astonished the feds took them seriously. The feds stopped all cars coming and going and shut off the water and power. The rebellion ended early. I was stuck motionless in a line of traffic for hours.

[Shimmer1]

Oh let me tell you, before DisneyWorld and all those damn Yankees moved down there and ruined it, Florida was wonderful in so many ways. More lakes than MN, although not as large of ones. Slow, easy times.

[bicyclerepair]

Cubans vote r so careful what you wish for.
Miami though yes good riddance

[Mouton]

Yeah, after Flagler expanded his RR, the place has gone down hill faster than a falling rock. A few of my neighbors have moved up state over the past ten years and have no plans on returning. I’ve not spent time on the south west coast so not sure if the Naples area is as bad as the east coast but I am prepared nonetheless to let it go along with the Keys and everything south of Daytona. As far as the Northlibscum goes, I have new neighbors next door, from the DC area and big obama supportors. My passtime is leaving the door ajar when I rant about the ass..le. I love to watch their vehicle, Prious, wobble as they pass my house with my Gadsden flag flying.

[Bob]

Seceding would gain them billions of dollars in US foreign aid. They’d become the UN’s poster child for climate change.

Wasn’t that the premise of an old movie? Declare war on the US; lose the war; benefit from the US rebuilding.

[NonValueAdded]

Yes, a fence should be part of the deal. Maybe even implement MacArthur’s idea of a 5 mile DMZ seeded with cobalt-60.

[dowcaet]

Now you have idiot New Yorkers like Alan Grayson and Debbie Wasserman Schultz representing south Florida. You see northeasterners moving to and ruining Virginia and North Carolina with liberalism. These liberal idiots that are fleeing the northeast need to keep their damn liberal ideology there and not ruin their new states with it.

[NonValueAdded]

South of Vero. Don’t consign a conservative Brevard to the third world.

[tbpiper]

They want to split pretty much along the I-4 corridor (gotta keep the Disney money). I live in Hillsborough county and don't want any more Miami influence than we already have. Maybe they could carve out a “District of Miami”. It would be just as nasty and dysfunctional as the District of Columbia.

[SampleMan]

I live in North Florida and would pay for the south to go.

Ditto. Are you taking up a collection?

[elcid1970]

Always liked North Florida & the Panhandle. It’s part of the South.

[SatinDoll]

In 1980 I went to Navy Recruit Training in Orlando. Boarded a flight in Portland, OR, when it was 50 degrees and raining; a typical spring day in the Pacific Northwest. Dragged myself off the flight in Orlando, Florida, where it was 95 degrees with 98% humidity.

I didn’t leave Orlando until late July. The weather was miserable the whole time - the base ran out of toilet paper and the air conditioning failed. The cockroaches were as big as small dogs. The only place worse was San Angelo, Texas, two years in the future. But my next training station would be the lovely Presidio of Monterrey; a place I still visit in my dreams.

[Mouton]

Toss in some Cesium-137 for good measure.

[rrrod]

Naples is part of the US although they have a problem with Northern libtards too...its its controlled I hear. Palm, Broward, Mimai Dade is corroded.

But to be fair the Tea party started in Broward county.....the few, the proud, the armed to the teeth!