Giant blob of seaweed twice the width of US taking aim at Florida, scientists say

I saw a movie about this. Did not end well. 👀

Thanks, Obama!

Fake News!

There has been Great White Shark sightings off Florida, just in time for Spring Break.

It's already swarmed with Floridians. Spring Breakers beware.

Anybody have any pictures of it from space? Yahoo per usual shits the bed with their coverage

DeSantis attracts nasty things.

Seven posts to make an article about a giant blob of seaweed into political grandstanding. Never change, DL.

The Hill Article on this Seaweed Blob. This is being widely reported.

Florida is also experiencing a "red toxic tide". According to Oceanographers, "Red tide has caused dead fish to wash ashore in droves, while the risk of respiratory irritation for humans has canceled events and driven beachgoers away."

Florida is also experiencing a "red toxic tide". According to Oceanographers, "Red tide has caused dead fish to wash ashore in droves, while the risk of respiratory irritation for humans has canceled events and driven beachgoers away."

Florida is also experiencing a "red toxic tide". According to Oceanographers, "Red tide has caused dead fish to wash ashore in droves, while the risk of respiratory irritation for humans has canceled events and driven beachgoers away."

That’s it giant blob. Just keep her steady.

Atta girl!

So it's not about politics, R8? Let me give you a hint:

[quote] Scientists have found that climate change is causing ocean temperatures to rise, creating a more ideal environment for the algae to thrive. Meanwhile, urban and agriculture runoff is sending nitrates from fertilizers and other nutrients flowing into the ocean, feeding the bloom.

Florida is the number one state for pollution at this time with readings in many areas being off the charts and never before recorded.

Woke blob!

I'm sorry for the ocean wildlife and don't wish for this, but if it's happening, I'd say go ahead and take out Floridians and anyone that visits there for Spring Break. Couldn't happen to a better state.

Take that, assholes!

Maybe they can flash it with light, like a cleaning, or use bleach?

[quote]It can be seen from space.

So can your ass

DeSantis has released a statement threatening the blob and has called it a “weak democrat”.

Stay tuned for more updates…

His follow up statement has stated that he believes that transsexuals are a bigger threat than pollution, and asks constituents to look the other way and ignore the democrat blob.

R14 No, it is not about politics and Republicans can't control the weather. Moron.

Mother Nature's revenge

R23 pollution is not about climate change. Stop trying to conflate the two. Although the ocean warming is what caused the blob and red tide.

so republicans can affect the weather.

Try to think for once instead of typing first.

I welcome my new seaweed overlord!

People need to learn how to talk about local pollution without discussing climate change. Florida’s residents are being poisoned in the air, water and soil.

It will be on them to figure this out because the state government doesn’t care. It’s run by Russia. Did you not know that?

Florida is a Russian state.

May it consume the entire state!

This is the form the ALIENS are taking to start the eradication of the human race. Although I kind of wish they would have left them for last so they could experience the feelings of abject fear and dread for as long as possible before they died.

It's the RUSSIANS!!!!

Cants they shoot missiles or lasers at it like when an asteroid comes to earth.

Exactly r31. Plus we don't even have to tell them it was us. Just like Mexico.

[quote] No, it is not about politics and Republicans can't control the weather. Moron.

You posted this statement, and I'm the moron R23?

Let me dumb it down for you: This seaweed is caused by global warming & water pollution. Do Republicans care about global warming & water pollution? Think hard.

Florida is having a real Toxic Red Tide now. The Marine Scientific meaning of a Toxic Red Tide.

I thought Florida is having a real Toxic Fascist Tide right now?

Well THANK FUCKING GOD Florida is laser-focused on wokeness and pronouns!

DiSantis will find a way to blame this on the gays if he hasn’t already

The Governor’s handler is a registered Russian spy. They RUN Tallahassee and are behind all the anti-gay stuff and all the other stuff they do in Russia like making a big show of transporting immigrants and you have to be blind not to see this.

This is Desantis’s boss/handler.

She is in charge of making sure Tallahassee does Russia’s business and all the stupid Republican constituents have no idea.

Look, there’s a tranny. Pay no mind to the pillaging of the state and it’s retrofitting to be the nations dumping ground for toxic pollution. They save a fortune by letting the pollution just leech into everything.

Hail Mother Russia!

I will destroy many beach of American state of Florida for make glory of fearless leader.

Unmitigated nitrogen runoff from cookie-cutter lawns + toxic chemicals from Lake Okeechobee, courtesy of Big Sugar

Florida is full of old retirees who simply don’t give a shit about the environment. In their minds they’re going to be dead soon anyway, so why care. And the younger Floridians are mostly mentally challenged and also don’t care that they’re marinating in a toxic swamp.

WRONG. That's just Donald Trump poop.

I eat seaweed. Make me a smoothie.

[quote] Florida’s residents are being poisoned in the air, water and soil.

Karma's a bitch, MAGAts.

Throw some ivermectin on it.

Every day there is a new story of toxic pollution in Florida and those are just the stores that aren’t being surprised.

When are they going to clean up that state? It used to be so beautiful and natural. You’d think they want to conserve that.

*suppressed.

[quote]There has been Great White Shark sightings off Florida, j

Oh, dear.

[quote]and it’s retrofitting

Oh, dear!

[quote]This is the form the ALIENS are taking to start the eradication of the human race.

Is this one of those AI seaweed blobs?

Watch out, Florida. This is what's in store for you.

Has the blob crested to shore and destroyed Florida or.....?:

A Giant Blob of Seaweed headed for Florida is the most Florida thing ever.

duhnuh..... duhnuh.....

duhnuh duhnuh duhnuh DUHNUH DUHNUH DUHNUH

ha ha

Currently Florida has (and this is scientific)

-red toxic tide

-great white sharks

-Gigantic seaweed blob

The blob and the spring breakers deserve each other.

R56

-bath salts

-Floridians

2 meth-addicted alligators

and fascist DeSantis in high heeled GoGo boots.

De Santis, Trump, Seaweed... why is Florida such a magnet for all these noxious blobs?

Considering it's Florida, it's actually an improvement.

[quote] Currently Florida has (and this is scientific) -red toxic tide -great white sharks -Gigantic seaweed blob

All that plus hurricanes, gators, flying roaches, sinkholes, and Mar-a-Lago! Come on blob...you know what to do!

In any decent 50's horror movie, the US government would have sent the Air Force's Flying Wing in with the latest nuclear bomb to blow that fucker to hell and back. Afterwards Richard Carlson and the lovely Barbara Rush would have a celebrated with a quiet pre-coitus dinner on their tasteful Lanai while enjoying a glowing rose sunset of backlit radioactive soot and ash. End Scene.

In reality, this thing has been out there forever. It's gotten bigger due to the warming ocean and all the nitrogen-based chemical fertilizers we throw in the ocean. If it has shifted and is now, indeed, moving closer to Florida, that, too, is also due to climate change because we are changing the intraocean currents by changing the temperature of the water. This was like a swirling mass in between a bunch of different ocean currents that kind of locked it in place. If it's going wandering, it's because something changed in those currents.

Another fun fact, once the current taking warm water north stops or shifts to colder, deeper waters, the next ice age starts. So, that might help with our rising oceans problem but, ya know, all the northernmost latitudes of the planet will be uninhabitable. Basically, anything north of Kentucky in the US and almost all of Europe and Canada.

I hope the seaweed drowns DeSantis and all the flies and bugs that hide in it devour his flesh.

R62 Don't forget about the thousands of pythons taking over the state!

I bet there's a cheap horror movie made of this before it even hits the shores. You just know someone already called someone somewhere about it. What's the best schlocky film studio. We should make it a collective DL collaboration.

DL Films. Fuck yeah.

Weedzilla?

Kelpnado?

Weedpocalypse?

Good…glad I left the place last Oct…couldn’t happen to a better place

This has the marks of the gay scientists at Disney Imagineering.

It's kind of like the menace that Florida poses to the rest of the country, so I think it's only fair.

Thanks for the FOX link, OP.

Florida already has a giant, toxic blob.

My beloved home state was once so beautiful. Now its a toxic dump full of bigoted yankees and deplorables. I cant wait till mother shuffles off this mortal coil so I can sell everything and get the fuck out of here.

Two.

Florida is on its period.

I live in SWFL (Naples). This shit is real and nasty. After five minutes on the beach, you’re wheezing like a ten pack a day smoker.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ft Lauderdale here. Two blocks from the beach. I see patches of it, but nothing like what’s in store for the West Coast. Good luck.

Team Blob.

R74, I can relate. My family lived in Florida for generations, going back to the 19th century, and I finally fled for good a couple of years ago. I’m lucky in that my parents also moved, so I wasn’t obligated to stay any longer. Things there really took a turn for the worse after Desantis took office, though I had noticed a steady uptick in new arrivals/development well before 2019. Florida is now a nightmarish cesspit of frenzied development, and is filled to the brim with horrible people who keep piling in.

It’s a real shame as many parts of Florida, until a couple of decades ago, were tranquil and appealing. Not anymore.

Could this cause any issues or is it just gross?

the beaches have to close.

The poor dead fishes 🐟🐡🐠

Can it get you high?

R77 it affects the air quality?

Yeah, Floridians might let DeSantis do nothing about this, but the rest of the country...not so much.

But surely Hunter Biden's penis is the bigger threat to Republicans.

Isn't this the Sargasso Sea?

It's been around for centuries.

I have to laugh at the hate comments about Florida on here - please tell me what state you live in, I’m sure it’s perfect.

R88, I lived in Florida for five years and I ran back to PENNSYLVANIA first chance I got. Pennsylvania is usually a hot mess, but Florida is terrible. The weather, the critters, the religious bigots. And with the DeSantis “Freedom Crusade” it’s probably worse than ever. Won’t ever go back.

And don’t say “well we have South Beach and Key West”…ten each of those couldn’t make up for the cesspool that remains.

Can’t believe how awful Florida has become. I know we have some big issues in the US, but Florida has become a Third World State. Friends and colleagues abroad ask if it’s truly the shithole that they read about.

Yes. With the rise of vengeful dictatorial DeSantis, it’s completely devolved.

Exhibit A: Foreigner seeking treatment for a medical condition finds a shyster physician who is enabled to practice in Florida due to laws that prevent quack medical treatments and potentially deadly outcomes. Foreigners ask, how can this be occurring within the borders of the USA? Sham medical treatment is promoted in places like Russia and Egypt….but not in the USA. Unless it’s in Florida:

[quote] "Florida requires that your hired hand that you bring to your house to cut your lawn has more insurance than any physician that's going to operate on you," he said.

R88, Florida recently became the nation’s third largest state by population, overtaking NY (because all the NYers are moving to FL). Florida is now densely populated and its infrastructure is totally overburdened. High crime, aggressive assholes everywhere, hideous strip malls, high CoL, unbearable heat and humidity most of the year, I could go on and on. Pretty much any state other than some of the most dire would be an improvement.

I feel bad for the alligators. I hope they get some deplorable meals and don’t get caught

Thank you, r92.

[quote]the beaches have to close.

I assume only for the hoi polloi.

What's the problem? When Florida sinks into the ocean, there will be seaweed everywhere anyway. Get used to it.

Pics or it isn't happening.

I remember back when You Tube was young and there were some hot "Sex on the Beach" Spring BReak videos.

This rolled on like a disaster movie in NE Jamaica in January.

Are we sure the blob is seaweed? It's spring break--maybe it's just Lens Dunham frolicking offshore at Daytona Beach.

Thirteen years ago there were reports of a large plastic patch in the Atlantic off the Azores meeting the Sargasso Sea.

Barbie?

R2- Yes, I believe trump is there.

Florida beaches brace for 5,000-mile blob of seaweed to deposit rotting goop Enormous clump of floating algae threatens to bring pungent odor of rotting eggs to tourist beaches of Gulf of Mexico

DeSantis just banned the blob

He banned trump?

The environment is fine!

"I have to laugh at the hate comments about Florida on here - please tell me what state you live in, I’m sure it’s perfect."

Definitely not your state: Denial.

there really is a seaweed blog heading to Florida.

Wow I’ve only ever seen things like Chris Christies on a woman before. Usually even fat men don’t have thighs that enormous

Anybody know if it will be gone by August? I’m going to Fort Lauderdale then.