Tspank likes to add a scoop of red tide to his morning bowl of flax seed and crushed up Valium.

Progs hate it when things are good. We have the best natural environment in the country, and they are still belly aching.

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Frequency and duration of red tide has increased. More directly caused by DEP inaction on upholding the Clean Water Act is the persistent algae blooms in IRL and pretty much every major lake and all of the lower St. Johns River as well as St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Rivers. The Peace River is a mess and the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee are massively overloaded with nutrients from local sources before the gates are Lake O. are cracked. Banana River is a desert now. But hey, the Pyrodinium makes pretty bioluminescence when it is in bloom concentrations so there's that.

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Your source didn't score any biological measures like eutrophication. Every major lake on the peninsula is dominated by cyanobacteria. The annual bloom in Lake George is so bad that it is causing dissolved oxygen crashes during the summer and fall downstream from the lake. IRL-BRL is the worst anyone has every seen it which is pretty sad since most other major estuaries and lagoons have improved in recent decades as watersheds have implemented Clean Water Act provisions. Unless something significant happens soon, the IRL/BRL between Sebastian and T'ville will permanently flip to an altered stable state from macrophyte dominance to plankton dominance.

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Most of the fishermen and duck hunters that I know that are hurting bad and hopping mad because of the loss of submerged aquatic vegetation aren't progs, not even close.

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You don't get out of state much, do you?


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Ah Trollpablo and his reality bubble. Somebody wheel him into the crafts room for his Jello and prune juice. LOL

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AP to Trump on climate: Scientists say we're getting to a point where it's irreversible

Trump: My uncle was a scientist...and "I didn't talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides"

Then by all means, take a swim in one of our many lakes, streams or other bodies of fresh water. Make sure to go nice and deep, especially in the summer months. Actually, go nice and deep right now considering we are sweltering under record heat.



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Sure, except the scientists on the other side were just a handful of them that were responsible for the vast majority of the anti-climate change material and were bought and paid for by the oil industry.

Science jeans, and a stable jeanius

LOL his hair was weird even back then. What's with that ear combover?

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What did the odumbo administration and Bill Nelson do about this?

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Nothing, of course. If Scott had been a dem, they would be blaming some other GOP boogey man, probably racist, sexist, homophobic, old white men. That is the usual suspect for these clowns. And then they wonder why old white men don't vote for dems.

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Edited: 10/18/2018 at 07:56 AM by tpapablo

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and its subsidiary Water Management Districts are in charge of water quality in Florida. These entities are directly controlled by the governor.

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Edited: 10/18/2018 at 07:59 AM by scombrid

EPA was created by congress many moons ago and it sets standards but states are generally responsible for meeting standards and controlling consumptive use and discharge permitting. EPA is supposed to step in when TMDLs aren't met or aren't properly set but short funding means that states get to do what they want in a lot of cases. Senate has essentially nothing to do with state water quality management. Obama's EPA did tighten up the "Waters of the United States" language which would have helped with nutrient pollution. Pruitt/Trump/Wheeler undid all that. Trump also removed rules on valley fill operations in mining country. Scott sent Pam Bondi to join a lawsuit to block the Chesapeake Bay Agreement because Mosaic and the Farm Bureau don't want fertilizer regulated/restricted and they are afraid that the Chesapeake Bay Agreement could set a bad precedent for the Mississippi basin.

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So our resident senator who owns riverfront property has no stake in this?

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LOL! Seriously?!?!

A much smaller stake than the guy that controls DEP and the Water Management Districts and the state legislature that controls the budgets of all the state agencies and agents of the state.

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