Giant masses of seaweed are multiplying at record-breaking levels and are beginning to stack up along Florida’s shorelines. NBC News’ Sam Brock travels out to sea with researchers studying the unprecedented seaweed growth.
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#Seaweed #Florida #Environment
Better get Doc Savage!
It’s probably eating up all the extra carbon we’re making. 😜
it’s China’s latest attack !
Possibly nutrients stired up from hurricanes?
sargassum not sargasm
“It’s gross and really unattractive “
Yeah because crap like that really matters. It’s nature, sometimes she is gross and unattractive, GET USED to it
Snowflakes
Lucky that seaweed is now becoming very popular for lots of different appllications so best get on it and utilise it. Think of all the compost you can make using it or for fuel heat and power using it as a bio fuel. Take advantage of it dont moan.
Again, TV news does not inform.
liberal media is sure to blame it on climate change. Stay scared people.
They’re just being sarcastic…
You want to live by the ocean that’s what you get deal with it and stop crying you big babies
Why don’t they just collect it and donate it to the several companies that are using seaweed and turning it into eco plastic.
Went to the beach today in the caribbean and it is getting bad again🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
I thought seaweed cleans the water?? if that’s true it would make sense that nature is making way more of it…
I would say flooding is the cause
lol CO2 concentration and water temp increases and thus photosynthesis is obviously boosted….Not really rocket science, just that the conditions happen to be much more favorable this year vs the previous. I just hope these coastal governments are not dumb enough try to stop this occurrence and thinking it is “helpful”.
Make it into fuel
Best fertilizer what you can get
I do not care. It is DeSantis’ problem, because we all know global warming is a myth.
MEANING OF THAT SEA WEED ARE THE DEATH OF LAVA INSIDE THE LAND OF OCEAN NO RELEASING HYDROGEN GAS REASON WHY THE PLANTS CONVERTER OF HYDROGEN INTO OXYGEN ARE DYING THEN IF NO MORE OXYGEN ALL MARINE LIFE WILL DIE AND MANY EARTQUAKE ARE HAPPENED IN THE OCEAN AND MANY SINK HOLE ARE BORN AND THE NEXT ARE THE DRYING OF THE OCEAN,, THE CAUSES OF BUBBLE IN THE OCEAN LIKE A SOAF ARE MADE OF BROKEN INTO GRANULE ROCK THAT IS NORMAL FOR THE PLANET VCLOSED TO DIE… ALSO DINOSAUR AND PLANET MARS ARE SUFFERED OF MANY TYPE OF DISASTER BEFORE BURNING THE PLANET
Will someone living underneath sea water is trying to tell us that’s how it feels throwing garbage into sea water.
Why is it so bad? If it is just and eye sore and bad smell, I would say just live with it
This story runs every season 🤣🤣🤣
Spray it with roundup .
Take advantage of the free fertilizer people
Sounds better than the plastic covering the beaches in Oregon
Well it looks like god or mother nature is trying to get someones attention
Would anyone think seaweed is a plague in Florida?
that’s a delicacy to Polynesians,
N Z. Maori etc, they soak it in water, flush out the sand etc, they fry it in butter, olive oil, gone in 60seconds,
🥰🤪…
Not sure that’s seaweed. Looks like fibrils of spike protein the ocean won’t stop producing.
Good…just bomb Florida off the map so the sea weed is free to float wherever.
DUHH ? Have they not realised that there is a natural phenomena called El Nino which happens every few years causing warm and cold weather all over the world which changes direction direction ? Seaweed is a bonus natural fertiliser collected worldwide so your getting a bonus as it`s even used in Beauty products .
Its not that deep. Put the trash lines out catch it make fertilizer keep it moving. Probably has to do with the oil spills
Is it edible?
What on Earth could be causing it? 🤔 They just can’t seem to puzzle this strange phenomenon out. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe it would be an excellent fertilizer for crop fields if not too salty.
This is shocking! We must fear the seaweed, people.
Gather it all up. Compost grows food.
Harvest it, use it.
a big smelly orange blob headed to Florida
This has been an issue for several years. It’s interesting that NOW the media wants to raise attention. Wonder why
SARGASSUM- happens when my wife is being continually insulting, then goes into fits of uncontrollable laughter.
Jesus Christ people, this seaweed is the greatest nursery for open water animals. IDGAF if some random tourist doesn’t like it- it’s great for the marine ecosystem and benefits all sea creatures, sorry it doesn’t make a Midwestern housewife happy because she perceives it to be gross 😒
Free fertilizer and natural
Well fix your nitrogen shortage. Stop trying to gaslight people. Handicapped propogandist.
Born and raised on the beach in Florida both and avid fishermen and surfer. Some years are worse than other however every year we get seaweed like this.
Just back home in Maryland from my Miami Beach condo. My condo is about 100 yards from the most beautiful beach near 52nd and Collins Ave. The City ‘sweeps’ the beach daily and gathers it all up. Miami-Dade County has innovative disposal methods. But (big BUT) the sargassum does provide a beneficial habitat for various fish and sea turtles. Apparently, it originates from high levels of nutrients being dumped into the Amazon. Oh, well….
Yes, the ocean is not swimming pool and not supposed to be. One will have to get over it. Tourists might expect it to be, but they are wrong.
Republicans say it can’t be due to global warming. Whew, so lucky
I can’t wait until it’s ten feet deep on all Florida beaches
How interesting the state governor is jet-setting around the globe to promote himself politically, but you don’t see the state hiring a fraction of their own unemployed to scrap the stuff up off the beaches. EVERY photo I’ve seen displays the stuff just continually building on shorelines.
Priorities floating up on beaches and making people sick are usurped by one person’s silly and worthless political ambitions.
Well done!
Every challenge is a opportunity. Rotting sea weeds can be used to produce bio gas and after that can be used as a compost. Live sea weed can be used for bio plastic production. Its also can be used as a animal food or even pellet production from dried sea weeds
Get rid of this kelp before hurricane season because no one wants their home to smell like rotten kelp eww.
The seaweed doesn’t bother me when I go to the beach 🤷🏾♀️ (I live in south Fl)
That smell is horrible. I got sick due to that.
Yah that happens sometimes its called mother nature 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Clearly biden is behind this attempted sabotage trying to get back at De Santis and Republicans / Conservatives that call Florida home.
😂😂😂 humans are absolutely ridiculous
Turn it into biofuel.
Humans destroy the world in the name of conservation and righteousness just as fast as the rest.
“SAR-gasm?” our reporter has a bit of a Freudian pronunciation problem… it’s “Sar-GAS-sum.”
No thanks
It’s mother earth trying to cool its oceans naturally. So ooo, much wow!
Multipurpose resources
Why use the phrase “science vs nature?” Dan Brock, update your discourse
Like land plants, seaweed produces oxygen, around 70% of the total oxygen on Earth. An abundance of Seaweed might actually combat climate change, by removing more CO2 from the atmosphere.
Imagine if this happens every year
It does. Just like clockwork. This is nothing new. They’re just out of news to report.
It has come and gone for ever! As soon as they can figure out who to charge the bill will be in the mail.
Excellent for gardens and compost!
It makes good fertiliser for growing crops.
Carry your garbage out each week, gets buried at your landfill. Not one complaint, cause you can’t see or smell it 🤫
Mmm seaweed snacks yummers.
Say it with me folks: climate change
Good. Florida deserves all the trash. Let DeSatanist and his Qworshippers choke on it.
I have no doubt this is tied into climate change in some way. Leave it to the MSM to not even speculate about the connection.
You can convert Seaweed into Bio Petrol ⛽️
I feel like there is a Greek theology or theatrical lesson here somewhere.
13 Million Tons of FREE BIO FUEL MATERIAL ANYOME ?
use it as an alternative for plastic products
I just had a sargassum
Chemtrails
we dont like the way it looks but it helps nature lol , talk about selfish humans
Get Trump to shoot missiles in order to rid of th seaweed? 😂
Typical arrogant privileged Behavior by humans. Earth does what it does and we get upset when it doesn’t suit our needs
This is what happens when you pour chemicals into the ocean.
You should be wearing life jackets!
The Beach near me here in Florida is covered! So crazy and seeing it in the ocean floating around like that is even more crazy
On the flip side, more fish
Could this be an effect of the massive sea urchin die-offs in the area? Sea urchins are known to eat seaweed.
#dontbelievethehype
Excellent news ,,,
Hey make some biofuel out of it!
Nature takes revenge.
Maybe stop fertilizing the ocean for a start we need to be more responsible about our emissions from different industries, and other human processes, into the various environmental mediums we pollute.
Careful with your outboard engine in seaweed. It restricts the water used to cool the engine and can cause it to overheat. Happened to me last week
good dont go on the beach
A good food source for fish and shrimp.
Hmmm. No mention of Sargasm Sea, Gulf Stream, or North Atlantic Gyre as it relates to that map. Lived here 30 years, this has happened before.
Ron DeSeaweed