Saving these corals are a one time opportunity given the fact the water channel will be disrupted. This is the most incredibly insensitive Governor Florida has ever had. Nothing matters but a political agenda and cronies. Forbid a ship should have to ideal for an hour waiting to put into port. A lifetime to save corals, a carbon sink, and the scientists can't even be accommodated with a margin of safety. I suppose the scientists are lucky they have a chance in the first place with this Governor.
Republicans hate Americans. They hate American values.
What is really amazing is the work is being conducted by a private company, "coralmorphic." (click here)
Yes, indeed, the scientists have a private company, a small business, the very entity that Republicans claim are protected by them at every turn. Oh, wait, it is a small business and one to admire, but, it just isn't the right kind of small business that agrees with Republican political dogma.
Work by scientists is extremely important work. In many, many ways more important than any work by a Governor. Yet, it doesn't matter how important anyone's work is, the Republicans simply hate American values and work that conflicts with their best chance at winning power. The truth is the power of the corals have are absolutely nothing any Governor has a substitute for and needs to pay attention and respect to those entities that cannot be replaced on God's green Earth. Earth is still green, right?
The best Florida Governor Scott's administration can do to rescuing corals is warn those conducting the work is they have 20 minutes or die. Is that right? Lives of these scientists hang in the balance while they do their work? Really?
OSHA! OSHA! OSHA! There is still an OSHA, right?
By Greg Allen
June 4, 2014 — 2:03 PM
...We're finding brain coral. (click here) We're finding boulder corals, the mountainous star coral. We're finding about four or five species of corals that just this past year were proposed to be listed on the endangered species list. And they're all growing out there," he says.
The boat, headed 2 miles out into the bay, speeds past huge cranes unloading container ships at the port, and condos and sunbathers on Miami Beach.
In the middle of the channel here on the previous day, divers spotted some large corals. They've come back to rescue them.
As Foord maneuvers the boat, port officials pull up in another boat to warn the crew that a freighter is coming, headed right through the spot where they're diving. They're told they have 20 minutes.
"OK, that's all we need. I have corals from yesterday that they had to abandon. We're just going to get the corals, and we're going to get out," Foord says.
As the boat bobs in a choppy 3-foot sea, Sam May, a junior at the University of Miami, pulls on his wet suit and diving gear.
"The depth is not what's exceptionally challenging about here. It's the fact that it's such a busy waterway," he says. "We have to time it correctly around the currents, otherwise we have this huge 5- to 6-knot current that flows through."
May and another diver go into the water with big baskets attached to buoys. Within a few minutes, Foord and another crew member haul in the baskets. Inside are 30-pound corals nearly 2 feet in diameter....
Republicans hate Americans. They hate American values.
What is really amazing is the work is being conducted by a private company, "coralmorphic." (click here)
Yes, indeed, the scientists have a private company, a small business, the very entity that Republicans claim are protected by them at every turn. Oh, wait, it is a small business and one to admire, but, it just isn't the right kind of small business that agrees with Republican political dogma.
Work by scientists is extremely important work. In many, many ways more important than any work by a Governor. Yet, it doesn't matter how important anyone's work is, the Republicans simply hate American values and work that conflicts with their best chance at winning power. The truth is the power of the corals have are absolutely nothing any Governor has a substitute for and needs to pay attention and respect to those entities that cannot be replaced on God's green Earth. Earth is still green, right?
The best Florida Governor Scott's administration can do to rescuing corals is warn those conducting the work is they have 20 minutes or die. Is that right? Lives of these scientists hang in the balance while they do their work? Really?OSHA! OSHA! OSHA! There is still an OSHA, right?
By Greg Allen
June 4, 2014 — 2:03 PM
...We're finding brain coral. (click here) We're finding boulder corals, the mountainous star coral. We're finding about four or five species of corals that just this past year were proposed to be listed on the endangered species list. And they're all growing out there," he says.
The boat, headed 2 miles out into the bay, speeds past huge cranes unloading container ships at the port, and condos and sunbathers on Miami Beach.
In the middle of the channel here on the previous day, divers spotted some large corals. They've come back to rescue them.
As Foord maneuvers the boat, port officials pull up in another boat to warn the crew that a freighter is coming, headed right through the spot where they're diving. They're told they have 20 minutes.
"OK, that's all we need. I have corals from yesterday that they had to abandon. We're just going to get the corals, and we're going to get out," Foord says.
As the boat bobs in a choppy 3-foot sea, Sam May, a junior at the University of Miami, pulls on his wet suit and diving gear.
"The depth is not what's exceptionally challenging about here. It's the fact that it's such a busy waterway," he says. "We have to time it correctly around the currents, otherwise we have this huge 5- to 6-knot current that flows through."
May and another diver go into the water with big baskets attached to buoys. Within a few minutes, Foord and another crew member haul in the baskets. Inside are 30-pound corals nearly 2 feet in diameter....
