[WRnative]

The next episode of "Nature" on PBS is "Wild Florida." It first will be broadcast on Feb. 12 and likely will be available in re-runs and online subsequently.


https://watch.weta.org/video/wild-florida-preview/

[vaughanwilliams]

Not much left of "Wild Florida". They could do an 11 episode mini series on unchecked growth, though.

[beach43ofus]

Originally Posted by vaughanwilliams

Not much left of "Wild Florida". They could do an 11 episode mini series on unchecked growth, though.

How would you propose it be checked?

[Arcenal813]

Originally Posted by vaughanwilliams

Not much left of "Wild Florida". They could do an 11 episode mini series on unchecked growth, though.

Florida may be overpopulated, but best believe, there is still TONS of "wild Florida" left.

[Wisertime]

Originally Posted by Arcenal352

Florida may be overpopulated, but best believe, there is still TONS of "wild Florida" left.

Girls gone wild is proof of that.

[WRnative]

I watched a recording of this episode last night. It's now available for watching online.


https://watch.weta.org/video/wild-florida-zgfci1/


The segment at the end of the show highlighted the efforts to restore the Great Florida Reef described in this article.


https://www.tampabay.com/news/enviro...n-restoration/


A statement was made during this segment that if the Great Florida Reef was lost, the Florida Keys would soon follow. There was no elaboration, but the presumption apparently was that the reef provides substantial protection against hurricanes. Ironically, more powerful hurricanes are one of the factors threatening the keys, according to the segment.


With continued ocean warming and ocean acidification destroying coral globally, saving the Great Florida Reef would seem like an uphill struggle, but neither of these factors were discussed during the program.



<<The total heat content of the world’s oceans (OHC) in 2019 was the warmest in recorded human history, according to a January 13 paper by Cheng et al., Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019, published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. In the uppermost 2000 meters of the oceans, there were 228 Zetta Joules more heat in 2019 than the 1981−2010 average; 2019 had 25 Zetta Joules more OHC than 2018 (a Zetta Joule is one sextillion Joules-- ten to the 21st power).


“We found that 2019 was not only the warmest year on record, it displayed the largest single-year increase of the entire decade, a sobering reminder that human-caused heating of our planet continues unabated,” said Penn State’s Dr. Michael Mann, one of the co-authors. The gain in ocean heat between 2018 and 2019 was about 44 times as great as all the energy used by humans in one year.


More than 90% of the increasing heat from human-caused global warming accumulates in the ocean because of its large heat capacity.>>


https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...story-in-2019/


https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/...f-climate.html



See coral under "impacts on ocean life" here:


https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/inve...-acidification

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by vaughanwilliams

Not much left of "Wild Florida". They could do an 11 episode mini series on unchecked growth, though.

I wish I could rep this a thousand times.

[vaughanwilliams]

Originally Posted by Arcenal352

Florida may be overpopulated, but best believe, there is still TONS of "wild Florida" left.

There absolutely is not tons of wild Florida left and what is left is mostly on Federal and State land. Florida adds 365,000 people a year-that's practically a Tampa sized city each and every year or a Miami every 15 months or an entire Miami-Dade every 7.5 years.

[Corrie22]

~1/2 of the state of Florida is protected lands......10 million acres Federal.....several more million is state and Florida Forever
..another 4 million is in private hands deeded protected

all totaled...it's almost 20 million acres...Florida is only ~42 million acres total

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Get away from the coast where all the people live.... you'll see a whole different Florida.

Florida's biggest issue is "altered" environment.... primarily from flood control. You can thank the Army Corp of Engineers for that one. However with out (some) flood control we would definitely have seasonal flooding. Man made problems can only be fixed with man made solutions. For the record.... Florida has made significant strides recently!

I love the comment about the oceans are the warmest in human history. Lol... how long do you think people have been recording ocean temperatures? um, at best... 200 years.

Try 200,000 years and your eyes will open for real. No one is denying climate change.