00:55 Florida Bans Words 'Climate Change' And 'Global Warming' Florida has ordered state environmental officials to not use the words 'climate change' and 'global warming' in any official communication. Matt Sampson has the details.

Florida isn't alone in directing state agencies not to use the phrase "climate change." North Carolina and Pennsylvania took similar measures in 2012.

The North Carolina state legislature ruled that officials would not be allowed to use the newest in technology to predict future sea-level rise , and Pennsylvania ordered the state's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to remove the term "climate change" from its website.

The administration of Pennsylvania's Gov. Tom Corbett asked DCRN employees to remove the term, according to Adrian Stouffer, a former marketing manager for the DCRN's Office of Education, Communications and Partnerships. Stouffer told the Allegheny Front that the governor's office asked for removal of the term "in cases where we looked like we were giving a position ."

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Stouffer said references to "climate change" were removed from the state's website because many uses of the phrase supported the fact that humans are a large contributing factor to climate change.

DCNR spokeswoman Christina Novak told the Allegheny Press in an email, "Agencies typically review websites to determine if information being communicated with the public is consistent with policy platforms of the new administration."

In North Carolina, the legislature passed a ruling after the state's Coastal Resources Commission released an estimate predicting the sea will rise 39 inches along the state's coast in a century, ABC News reported.

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The estimation alarmed developers and seaside residents. If the state was to take action, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, said ABC. North Carolina would need to draw new flood zones, build waste-treatment plants and elevate roads, and several permits of planned development projects would be in jeopardy.

The bill notes that sea-level rise may be predicted based only on historical data , stating, "These rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of sea-level rise may be extrapolated linearly to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of accelerates rates of sea-level rise."

Like Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources removed any mention of "climate change" in links and documents on its website in 2014.

Tom Mather, Division of Air Quality spokesman, told WRAL-TV, "We made these changes as part of our ongoing efforts to update, refresh and redesign our website. Currently, states do not have a lot of regulatory authority dealing with climate change."

He also noted that the state no longer had any active climate change programs and commissions.

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