Posted on 01/08/2012 3:17:46 PM PST by Iron Munro
“Who is supposed to maintain the temp of the coastal springs?
Maybe we have found the Ideal Normal Temperature of the Planet. Manatee Temp.”
You misunderstand. It’s spring FLOW, not TEMP. Excess usage affects warm water flow while temp is usually self regulating in underground aquifers. Think of five people taking a simultaneous hot shower from your house hot water heater. Gets pretty chilly after a while due to inadequate heater output to heat all the water being concurrently cycled through the system. IOW, your sisters used up your hot water allocation that morning and you got chilled to the bone while trying to get a shower!
JC
As do the Fla crocs hanging out at the Turkey Creek nuke power station in So Fla.
JC
The snooks tried that but couldn’t keep the matches lit underwater. Mebbe you could give ‘em a lesson, eh, what with your opposable thumbs and all? HAW
JC
/johnny
The manatee is actually a seasonally native species, in that they WERE a migratory species. They once swam north from the Caribbean/lower FL Keys every summer and swam south for the winter.
Once power plant cooling water was available to provide a winter refuge, the nasty brown stuff impacted the impeller/propeller. The air was filled with dire predictions of impending manatee extinctions. The braying of AgencyPersons wanting funds and more regulatory power was echoed in a cacophony of enviro-mental cases in the GangGreen movements.
None wanted to hear that the science was falsified. As an example, the population of manatee doubled in one year. That is quite a feat for an organism with a gestation time of 1.5 years!
Even fewer wanted to look at, much less accept hard data indicating manatee consumption of sea grass could be a problem for the other organisms in the sea grass habitats being overgrazed by manatee.
As with all “single species management plans”, the unintended consequences were severe. Of all the consequences, the spread of enviro-socialism was the most deleterious.
Fear not for the slow, dumb, primitive manatee. They are in no real danger of extinction. Our Constitution is.
FEAR FOR THE REPUBLIC! ! !
One more thing. Manatees are delicious, and I got that from people (commercial fishermen and scientists) who ate manatee rather more often than once. Yummers!
PS One commercial fisherman related being visited one evening by Water Nazis, who were invited to take a plate and bowl and join them for dinner on the island where the fishermen camped during the mullet run. When told that the meal was great, and asked what was the soup and the cut of the steaks, the answer was interesting.
“That there soup is turtle soup (sea turtle), and them steaks are manatee.”
“Very funny”, said the Water Nazi’s. “Go look at the shell and the rest of the manatee on the back of the island, iffn Ya’all don’t believed me” came the retort
The Water Nazi guests put down their plates and left.
Let me in on the secret; I’ve heard of underwater matches, but how the heck do you keep the the kindling dry? HAW
JC
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