FloridaRed Tide

If this doesn’t alarm you, you just can’t be alarmed.  Since the 1950′s the amount of plankton in our oceans has dropped by 40%.  The decline has been ongoing for at least a century according the Nature Journal. Just in case you didn’t know, phytoplankton are a microscopic algae that is the bottom tier of [...]

Charlie Crist asked for more money from BP. They said no. And this just might be a good thing. Let me explain. Governor Crist recently said he asked for $25 million to purchase adverts promoting tourism, in Florida. They said yes and he promptly spent the money on some ineffective advertising. Tourism dropped. New jobs [...]

A group of scientist did took a flight over the northern portion of The Gulf of Mexico. The good news is that they are still finding wildlife. The bad news they see huge plumes of oil headed for some very environmentally sensitive areas. Link to this post!

The scientists said it would happen. I sure can understand why no one wanted to believe it. It seemed to easy to say predictions of a massive and intense red tide bloom were inaccurate when the season started with only sporadic out breaks of red tide. And then – BAM! Tons of very intense red [...]

Seems a pilot off jetting around for a fun weekend discovered a big red tide out near Santa Barbra California. He took pictures for all the doubters too. This red tide hasn’t been documented by anyone but him so far. At least not in traditional sources. I did find lots of mention of last months [...]

The whole time the EPS has been implying to the public that they have “cracked down” successfully on the massive amount of dispersant use by BP in the gulf of Mexico, it apparently made the rules to allows almost as much dispersant use as BP wants. The EPA has set up a ridiculous formula for [...]