{"id":5308,"date":"2014-10-19T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2014-10-19T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T18:10:32","slug":"florida-politicians-battle-rhetoric-as-rising-seas-drive-worries-over-climate-change-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5308","title":{"rendered":"Florida politicians battle rhetoric as rising seas drive worries over climate change &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;The scramble to limit the damage from rising waters \u2014 practically and symbolically \u2014 illustrates the challenges and pitfalls faced by politicians this year in dealing with the divisive issue of climate change. Particularly in hard-hit coastal states such as Florida, where rising sea levels are now an inalterable fact, the effects are becoming harder to ignore or suppress, though officials regularly still try.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/florida-politicians-battle-rhetoric-as-rising-seas-drive-worries-over-climate-change\/2014\/10\/17\/e16fa3ce-548e-11e4-809b-8cc0a295c773_story.html\">Florida politicians battle rhetoric as rising seas drive worries over climate change &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;The scramble to limit the damage from rising waters \u2014 practically and symbolically \u2014 illustrates the challenges and pitfalls faced by politicians this year in dealing with the divisive issue of climate change. Particularly in hard-hit coastal states such as Florida, where rising sea levels are now an inalterable fact, the effects are becoming harder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}