5000 mile long Sargassum Bloom

Tell the governor it’s a non-binary bloom and it will be gone by week’s end.

 

If this thing travels as predicted its going to be a bad spring tourist season in Florida.
https://thehill.com/homenews/389629...ice-the-width-of-the-us-takes-aim-at-florida/

Marine scientists are tracking a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom that is so large, it can be seen from space.

These sargassum blooms are nothing new, but scientists say this one could be the largest in history. At last check, it was heading toward Florida’s Gulf coast.

 

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So, a dupe. Mods can delete.

 

Is it orange? asking for a friend.

 

Blame Joe Biden's open borders for allowing the woke blob to invade Florida sovereignty, and DeSantis will personally dispatch the Florida National Guard to deport the seaweed to Massachusetts.

 

Ugh. Heading to Cancun the last week of the month. I’ve dealt with lots of seaweed in the Dominican Republic and it’s not enjoyable.

 

It's edible, so harvest it and sell it. It has uses in medicine and livestock feed.

 

Does it reduce cow emissions? I read somewhere that some seaweed did.

 

None of the articles I read give any timeline on when it may wash ashore. Odd.

 

I was thinking the same thing. We even have seaweed shampoo.

 

I thought this was a Trump thread.

EDIT: Original title of dupe thread was Blob coming to Florida

My post just looks stupid now. : (

 

Send in the manatees!

 

I guess this may hinder opportunities to scavenge or harvest all that seaweed:

What is the Sargasso Sea?

 

As a floating mass, yes. But, washed up on the beach, I think, likely negates a lot of the concerns over disrupting it’s impact on those ecosystems. Although, maybe it can’t be harvested for other applications after a certain level of environmental decay?

 

At least as biomass it could be collected and digested anaerobically to produce methane, and then the methane burned to produce electricity.

 

Other than perhaps beaches getting covered what’s the down side? A large sargassum bed helps all marine life.

When we get strong easterly winds the beach gets covered up with it. It’s really not that big of a deal IMHO

 

Just because something is good, that doesn't mean more of it is better.

From my limited understanding, location is also important here. A bloom at sea provides needed habitat. A bloom ashore chokes out near shore and intertidal ecosystems.

An historically large and misplaced bloom seems quite capable of having negative impacts.

 

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