And to reiterate, this is about the perception in the upcoming election, you can wave at clouds all you want about scientific proof, but all that matters is If you are going to be the “regulation cutting guy”, you take the associated risks… if those regulations can be connected to subsequent issues they were enacted to prevent, you take the hit.
As I posted above, you are literally flying blind at the moment with a ghost ship of a DEP. Stupid.
So your scientific evidence showing cuts in the water management district and FL EPA are directly correlated with the last red tide (and BTW green algae bloom) are where?
You might actually be fun to speak with if you weren’t so condescending and defensive.
That seems to be the modus operandi, hard to prove there is a problem if you fired everyone who monitors/enforces and collects the data…
For someone who seems to be so insistent on data to justify a relationship, do you at least admit THAT is a problem?
Did he fire EVERYONE who collects data? Is the government our only source? Could it be possible that big sugar has been lobbying our politicians for decades and no matter if R or D is not to be trusted?
Do you know (just for one example) what Mote Marine Laboratories is and what they do? How about the Universities in Florida?
There are so many private industries out there trying to solve this problem as well. Using some pretty innovative stuff.
You can wave your hands all you want, but he has had a significant impact on permitting, enforcement and monitoring; the voters will decide soon enough if they support the changes he made.
Okay, I’ve tried to engage with you in a discussion. For some reason, you have a need to be condescending and defensive.
Good luck with that.
No problem, enjoy your toxic waterways and shores.
After cutting 700,000,000. 9,000,000 a mere drop in the bucket, so to speak
too little, too late.
Allan
so how much dough have they coughed up.
A lot less than 700,000,000 I betcha.
Allan
Part of the State of Emergency:
Continuation of enhanced water monitoring and testing by the Department of Environmental Projection and FWC to give scientists the best possible data to work with.
DEP continues to perform enhanced water testing, beach cleanup and public outreach, as well as the deployment of additional biologists to assist communities dealing with naturally occurring red tide.
Yeah I moved from Phoenix to Tampa in 1978, & remember Red Tide being in the news then.
It isn’t something new.
Those things are pretty hard to call an attempt to fix anything, when you consider the very department that is tasked with doing those tests was basically gutted.
If there were 500 people doing the tests before the cuts to the department, and now there are 200, its pretty silly to then call for CONTINUED ENHANCED monitoring, as there are less people doing the job. 200 people continuing to do the testing can’t possibly be as enhanced as 500 people doing it, now can it? But only having 200 do the job sure will make it easier for the cane producers to pollute the hell out of the waterways. Of that, we can be sure.
Scott has a list of other shenanigans that should get him booted from any public place.
