City officials in South Miami are sick and tired of Tallahassee, Florida’s capital, ignoring their city’s plight when it comes to climate change. So earlier this week, city officials signed on to a resolution proposing Florida be cut in two, making South Florida the 51st state.

“It’s very apparent that the attitude of the northern part of the state is that they would just love to saw the state in half and just let us float off into the Caribbean,” said Mayor Philip Stoddard, according to the SunSentinal, which first reported the move. “They’ve made that abundantly clear every possible opportunity and I would love to give them the opportunity to do that.”

Meanwhile, Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott defended his record on climate change during Tuesday night’s gubernatorial debate.



“We’re going piece by piece in solving the problems,” Scott said, saying he’s spent state money in the Keys and down in the Miami area. “That’s the right way to do this.”

Challenger Charlie Crist, the former Republican governor now running as a Democrat, said he believed in global warming and suggested more electric cars and solar power.

But this group of South Florida politicians suggested that those state level pols shouldn’t even bother.

From the resolution: “Whereas, presently, in order to address the concerns of South Florida, it is necessary to travel to Tallahassee in North Florida. Often South Florida issues do not receive the support of Tallahassee,” it reads. “This is despite the fact that South Florida generates more than 69% of the state's revenue and contains 67% of the state's population.”

The creation of the 51st state, the resolution suggests, “is a necessity for the very survival of the entire southern region of the current state of Florida.”