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13 January 2007
After massive piles of drift algae washed up on Lee County beaches two years ago and after toxic blue-green algae turned the Caloosahatchee River and its estuary neon last year, evidence that nutrients harm waterways could not be disputed. The culprit was nutrient-rich water dumped to the river from Lake Okeechobee and urban pollution, including [...]
Continue reading...13 January 2007
This one is real quick and to the point. I wouldn’t even include if ti wasn’t for the fact the State, FWRI, FFWG, Mote Marine, START, and the Red Tide Alliance have repeatedly said there’s no evidence pointing to a link between red tide and polluted run off. (By the way, since we and others [...]
Continue reading...13 January 2007
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For some reason our state government and a handful of scientific and pseudo-scientific organizations they sponsor namely, FWRI, Mote Marine, S.T.A.R.T. and the Red Tide Alliance have all been telling blatant mistruths about red tide. Today I will present evidence directly discounting one of their “errors”. We will call them errors instead of lies, because [...]
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Mote Marine Read this: I know your keen on trying to say the science says there’s no link between red tide and pollution. But the public is catching on. Just in case this is an honest mistake on your part, Here’s some evidence of the links between red tide and pollution: “Nutrient limits in Japan’s [...]
Continue reading...6 January 2007
Even though not a lot of people are swimming this time of year, this is still important news for all beachgoers in the central Florida area. There’s been a multitude of jellyfish at beaches in Central Florida’s Volusia County and Brevard County. When the wind blows the jellyfish blow ashore, where they are stepped on, [...]
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13 January 2007
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