No doubt the article was eradicated because pointing out that Miami's "antiquated sewer system has ruptured at least 65 times over the past two years, spewing more than 47 million gallons of untreated [raw] human waste into waterways and streets" was bad publicity.

Particularly bad publicity because the shameless tea party Republican mafioso in Miami-Dade County and their elected reps in the state legislature all voted against allocating any county or state money to doing the slightest damned thing about the blatant health problem, so that they could instead funnel more money into lobbyist groups so that the lobbyist groups could "lobby" more money back to the same unconscionably greedy tea party Republicans.

We have to wonder, after seeing the incessant plethora of repetitive local yocal news reports of Miami streets, parking lots, waterways, and homes filled with raw human excrement -- shutting down several city blocks at a time for days, with city works on round the clock overtime -- how much money was blown in repairing the broken busted pipes, and cleaning up the poopificated streets, parking lots, and homes (they don't bother with cleaning up the waterways, and in fact use them as outlets for the raw sewage, which ends up in the lakes and oceans as "bacteria" which shuts down the beaches).

Would these costly monetary losses from fixing and cleaning up after the pipes break possibly be more than the cost of fixing the rusting, decaying, dilapidated, overloaded pipes so that they don't break and cause disruptions and health problems and the shutdown of entire blocks of residential areas, restaurants, businesses, and even the beaches?

Whatever the cost difference, wouldn't it make more sense to apply the approximate cost of fixing the broken pipes toward preventing the rupturing of the pipes in the best interests and well being of area residents, businesses, and tourists.

And what are YOU looking at Broward county and the rest of south Florida? You all are doing the exact same thing, bending over and sticking your head in the sewagicated sand in instead of fixing the problem...

Note that the article mentioned that the state environmental regulators warned Miami that it "could be on the hook for penalties of $10,000 per day". Can't you just hear the mindless tea party Republican dimwits whining about having to actually do something about a serious costly problem that they should have already done something about...

Also on the topic of fines, the eradicated article mentioned that Miami-Dade had paid a one-time lump-sum two million dollar fine, the largest ever for a clean water act violation, for "constantly pouring raw sewage into the Miami River and Biscayne Bay".

Clarification for anyone that just came out of a years-long coma or that watch too much TV: untreated and even treated sewage such as that spilling into streets and residences of south Florida contain high levels of pharmaceuticals, not just as residue, but the high levels of the elderly population are known to use their toilets as disposal units (most of those wall to wall mile high condos and resorts do NOT have garbage disposals) for not only their garbage but also for unused pharmaceutical drugs. Then too, realize that the legal "pain clinics" that hand out drugs -- especially major "pain killers" like Oxycontin -- like candy to any addicts with the money also result in more noxious effluent spewing out of broken SoFla sewage pipes...

One other significant point from the long lost article was -- long story short -- that a major sewage pipeline, admitted to be made from a "notoriously defective" material, was so brittle that "it could rupture at any time" and that a "failure would be catastrophic", further stating that "the Miami River and Biscayne Bay would experience the worst environmental catastrophes in modern history"...

One final point of note from the eradicated article was that when things break in sewage treatment plants, the result is that sewage is rerouted to other plants and backs up into the sewers and storm drains in a neighborhood near you. So, that seems like a good explanation as to why we often are now frequently overwhelmed by entirely rancid, gagging odors from storm sewers. Or, was that a smelly tea party Republican walking by?

Since the article "went south", if you might want to verify any of the above, try contacting Charles Rabin at crabin@MiamiHerald.com... We also snapped a picture of the hard copy front page article for proof that this was not just another rumor started by Dave Barry.

And anyone that in the future votes for or believes anything that scurrilous tea party Republicans fabricate, you are getting what you deserve, a sewageload of smelly Republican sewage...

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And as promised in that earlier post (link below), we hereby followup with a warning for south Florida beachgoers, replete with pictures as graphic evidence of a danger related to the spread of the flesh-eating bacteria problem.

The pictures below of sharp skin-breaking objects were all (except one) snapped within minutes of each other along a 100 yard stretch of sand on Hollywood's (Florida) north beach. Granted, finding that many sharp objects in that span was unusual, but it points out the increasing plethora of unnatural sharp objects on the beach, especially light weight plastic items that tend to float or move with ocean currents.

To which we add for emphasis, that there are plenty of natural sharp skin-piercing objects to be found upon any beach, mostly in the form of broken sea shells. And if the pictured objects don't look terribly dangerous, this one-time sampling does not include the worst ever sharp objects, such as the jagged broken bottoms of bottles and jars and coffee cups with the broken shards pointing upwards (we have seen so many of these over the years, we sometimes wonder if some sicko doesn't plant these dangerous objects)...

The point is, for anyone that walks, jogs, or runs on the beach, breaking the skin on any sharp object is dangerous just from the perspective that the water and the sands are loaded with bacteria, but keep in mind some of it could well be flesh-eating bacteria...

The above mass does have a hook in it, and while that type of hook may not easily break the skin, we often find the multi-pronged hooks that have three barbs headed in three directions...

The above syringe was the one object we had found previously, and tho this medical needle was capped, we have found many that are not, yet still contained the fluid. Parents of inquisitive children, be wary...

The above gunk-encrusted object was an earring, of which there are many in the beach sand. A point on all these sharp objects for parents is that you should check any nearby area where children might be cavorting about; even if some objects might be less dangerous to be stepped upon, curious children tend to spot and investigate detritus such as the bright shiny object in the fishing hook debris...

The date the above pix were taken can be confirmed by doing a right click and selecting "view image info"...and if you want a close up zoom in, just left click on any of the pix...

By the way, an astute site visitor pointed out that our prior post mentioned the case of brain-eating bacteria in Florida, but it is actually a brain-eating water-borne amoeba that enters through the nose or ears. If interested in info on that yet-another-reason-to-stay-out-of-the-water, click on this link to "Florida's Prolific Brain-Eating Amoeba nearly always result in the death of the victim" (AND the tourism-controlled media ignoring such dangers).

Link to original post on Flesh eating bacteria and what you really need to know that the media ignores.

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Rather, that blatantly obvious -- and again for emphasis, belated -- observation was tooted on WPLG's channel 10 this morning. We say "belated" because it has been a rather rainy dry season of late, with several prolonged 3 to 4 day long rainouts recently and very few days that did not include a forecast of at least a 20% chance of showers.

And, never mind those several "gloomy" weeks in the last couple of months where the region was blanketed with heavy, dark, overcast cloud cover with no signs of sunshine.

But why today on the 15th announce the start of the rainy season, when it has been raining like this for several days? Shouldn't the official start have been back when this current monsoon started? Oh, but they wouldn't want to show the actual early start in the record books, now would they [update, see disclaimer]...

For those that have forgotten or were not aware, last fall the same National Weather Service in Miami announced that the fall/winter/spring dry season had arrived and the measly rainy season had ended on October 1st, after which the region experienced over two months more of rain, to include frequent flooding, with heavy record rainfalls including an all time record breaking 13+ inches on one day. And by the way, there were no hurricanes nor even tropical storms to attribute to these out-of-season heavy monsoonal rains...

With the major point to take from the prior recollection that -- just as the rainy season arrived early this year -- the rainy season hung around with a vengeance last year, with the bottom line being that the entire span of the rainy seasons are increasingly longer.

This is due not to the recent weak off and on La Nina weather pattern, but rather like other increasingly highly aberrant and catastrophic weather, it was due to global warming and the resultant extra moisture in the air and of course "warmer" temperatures...

But the most egregiously ignored omission regarding the recent rains, has been the total lack of noting the other blatantly obvious difference from past rainy season rainfalls...

Take yesterday afternoon for example, about 3:00 pm the skies over Lauderdale just turned a dark blue-black as the rains crept in. None of the usual numerous white anvil-heads of clouds dancing around the area here and there like past rainy seasons with the sun coming out between showers, just a huge enveloping dark rain system blasting into the area.

And this afternoon, the region was enveloped with low hanging blanket of heavy dark clouds well into the evening hours, looking more like the soggy midwest skies than a subtropical region.

That was all too typical of storms in the region of late: they are larger, darker, and more ominous than the usual more timid come-and-go rain clouds of the past. And there is notably more overcast conditions and considerably less sunshine...

But have any of the local yocal ignorologists even dared to mention the obvious growing changes in the weather systems? Of course not, that might require explaining it as attributed to that no-no of corporate-owned mainstream media slaves, "global warming"...

This is just one of far too many examples of how the weather (as well as the ocean/environment/flora/fauna) here in south Florida has been so obviously changing for the worse, and how the corporate-owned mainstream media puppets just blow it all off, in order to play along with the dirty energy industry attempt to throw up a smokescreen through which the majority of the populace will not clearly see the obvious impending destabilization and degradation of their climate and environment...

Below is to best of our recollection, the third weather "warning" of the day issued for Broward county from the National Weather Service. Although we experienced constant rumblings of thunder up until about 9:30 and some serious lightning strikes around 9:00, the warnings only mentioned flood advisories, so it would appear the the NWS is now lowballing the weather...

830 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2012

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED AN

* URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR. SO. CNTL BROWARD COUNTY IN SE FL. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF.PEMBROKE PINES.MIRAMAR. HOLLYWOOD.

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 829 PM EDT.NATL WEATHER SVC DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING FROM DAVIE TO COOPER CITY.WITH ANOTHER AREA OF TORRENTIAL RAINS OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF MIRAMAR & PEMBROKE PINES. ALREADY 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS OCCURRED ACROSS THESE AREAS. THERE HAS BEEN A REPORT OF STREET FLOODING IN DAVIE.

Update/correction: the NWS has retroactively -- in hindsight -- reset the start date of the rainy season back to the 8th of this month, but, the local frognosticators mistakenly -- if not deceptively -- declared that that date was only two weeks before the presumed start date of the rainy season; in reality, it is three weeks before the standard, normal designated June 1st start date which coincides with the opening day of hurricane season...

Disclaimer. It's a long shot, but we may possibly have missed some relatively accurate statements made by the local frognosticators, because we no longer have the stomach for watching every weather forecast on every station due to the pompous bright-shiny-object distractoramas of incessant blabbering about inanely sensationalistic soap opera dumboramas, not to mention the drudgery of advertision constantly spewing shameless commercials for pharmacuetically lobotomizing drugs and their little ole side effects...

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It used to be a novelty to see one of those long tubular sponges that populate ocean reefs wash up on the shore. But the last few years the incidence has been steadily increasing (along with other reef flora)...

And today we observed the beach littered with them. Thousands within about a 200 yard span just south of Dania Beach, north of old north beach on Hollywood beach (where there are known reefs close to shore). The sponges looked to be an odd dark brown -- dead -- color and generated a somewhat malodorous stench, like they were tainted or rotten or something.

Below is a short video clip of the thickest part of the sponge invasion (sorry about the quality, the vid was taken with a low-end phone cam).

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The old sprawling metropolis of Miami-Dade (now referred to as Miami-Dead by Dave Barry) had slowly shrunken down to a small island. Not that many people care or even know what has transpired at these previously subtropical latitudes anymore.

But, little does the size of the still-shrinking island matter, since the evolution of category 6 and 7 super hurricanes brought on by global warming have leveled the remaining land area infrastructure with numerous massive storm surges of from 30 to 60 feet.

As our team explores what is left of Key Miami -- or "Key Miasma" as some now more appropriately refer to it -- just before sunrise on an already searing 98 degree "winter" morning, we find that amid the remaining wreckage of a flattened steel and concrete jungle, no tropical flora or fauna has survived in this radioactive, suffocating heat.

Even the hardy Florida roaches and palmetto bugs eventually were eaten up by the highly acidic ocean water that frequently over-washed the high ground. The mosquitoes and flies had long ago evacuated north and south to cooler climes, chasing after what was left of the human race, which has been attempting to migrate to the cooler polar regions.

Yet we hear that the Southeast Florida Climate Compact is still meeting at their annual Southeast Florida Leadership Summit to look at once again refining their Regional Climate Action Plan to hold back the still rising seas from the new southern tip of the Florida peninsula in Orlando, and that Florida Emperor Rick Scott will be again doing his "WHAT Global Warming?" presentation from his residence in the Disney World castle compound...

The usual morning water spouts have fired up and some are headed our way, so as we turn back to our submarine -- coincidentally dubbed the USS Miami Heat after the team that finally won an NBA championship in 2012 -- we ponder all that had transpired which had brought about so much generally unsuspected disaster, even though the possibilities were well documented by a consensus of climate scientists over four decades ago...

• The sea levels had risen by over 30 feet in the last 50 years due to the abrupt runaway climate change scenario that climate scientists first warned of at the turn of the century.

• As early as 2010 many climate scientists were warning that greenhouse gas emissions must be significantly reduced within 5 to 7 years or the circular cascading feedback loops that had already been triggered by global warming would exceed their irreversible tipping point thresholds, resulting in the release of hundreds of trillions of tons of naturally stored greenhouse gases, which are a hundred times more potent than carbon dioxide, all within only two to three decades after it started.

• Although many nations around the planet did attempt to reduce greenhouse emissions, the major contributors to those emissions -- the "western" industrialized countries, along with China, Brazil, and India -- continued to increase rates of emissions by 3 to 6 percent each year.

• Emerging third world nations also added to the increase in emissions simply by bettering their economic status and joining the mechanized, electrified, carbon fossil fuel consumers of the planet.

• The predicted increase of the world population from 7 billion to 9 billion by mid century was progressively overshot by an increase to an unsustainable 11 billion, which significantly abetted tipping the scales of the planetary temperature rise. Even so, the population overshoot was actually an undershoot considering the last several doublings of the planetary populace, which had been occurring in time spans of less than 50 years.

• Ultimately, the climate scientists were proven correct in their abrupt runaway climate change scenario, as well as others who more fittingly labeled the coming disaster as abrupt catastrophic climate destabilization. The atmosphere became clogged with greenhouse gases, trapping 90 percent of solar heat instead of 9 percent, changing the greenhouse into an overheated hot house.

• The Arctic then became an ice free zone; the 1.5 million square mile West Antarctic ice sheet lost it's increasingly shaky moorings and then uncorked into warmer waters to melt away; many other country-sized ice fields such as the 450,000 square-kilometer Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the Wedell Sea on the eastern side of the Antarctic also broke away into the ocean; the once two mile high Greenland ice sheet fell into the predicted "slippery slope" scenario so that most of it had slid or washed or melted into the ocean "10,000 years ahead of schedule"; and the remaining planetary glaciers, ice fields, mountain snowpacks, and country-sized permafrost regions had yielded to the overheated hot house, making "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" a long lost fairy tale...

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We confess that the above future perspective was not an original concept on our part. Rather, it was our much more realistic interpretation of a much milder rendition of the same scenario from the introduction titled "Miami Beached" in the book titled "The Flooded Earth" (link below), and did look at the region circa 2120, with Miami having become an island.

However, that book -- like so many other documents on the subject of sea level rise -- took the typical dont-infuriate-the-rabid-deniers approach (referred to as "scientific reticence", the well-known affliction of the reluctantance of scientists to be entirely forthcoming in realistic conclusions that are open to being attacked as "crying wolf") in order to avoid abuse and death threats from unconscionable deniers, and ignored the circular cascading feedback loops, their irreversible tipping point thresholds, and the resultant runaway abrupt climate destabilization.

Two other relevant books (links below) which substantiate our contention of underplaying climatologists are "With Speed and Violence" which addresses tipping points and abrupt climate change, and "The Great Ocean Conveyor" which addresses the shutdown of the thermohaline current ("The Day After Tomorrow" movie was based on this phenomena) as another contributing trigger to sudden climate change, first resulting in an overheated planetary hot house which then transitions to an ice age...

Note that for any journalists, writers, or bloggers that might care to take any or all of the above content and develop it into any kind of article, have at it, we profess no copyright on the content, no need to cite, and feel free to revise away...

Link to our climate knowledge base.

Link to detailed information on the circular cascading feedback loops exceeding their irreversible tipping point thresholds.

Link to The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice on Google Books.

Link to preset search on WorldCat.org for The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice at a library near you (might have to enter your zip code).

Link to With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change on Google Books.

Link to preset search on WorldCat.org for With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change at a library near you (might have to enter your zip code).

Link to The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change on Google Books.

Link to preset search on WorldCat.org for The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change at a library near you (might have to enter your zip code).

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So, since we noticed that one such shark bite incident was registered today up in Vero Beach (that's north of Fort Pierce, which is north of Palm Beach) we are compelled to document the occurrence of that liddle ole bitey-poo incident...

"Bitey-poo" because in the article toward the bottom they start lambasting the reader with subliminal don't-worry statements, such as the woman being attacked by the shark was a "freakish accident". Oh, so, then, um,hey, don't y'all worry now, cuz that little ole shark didn't bite this person on purpose, so it was OK then.

Yeh, "freakish" just like they called that supercell tornado oubreak on the second day of March that wiped out entire towns; so if it was freakish, don't worry, be happy, it's cain't be the new normal, so it cain't happen again...just get out there in those Florida waters and splash around like a bait fish...cause that's what you are dummy, bait...

That's a lot like those bikers that get out on Florida's dangerous roads with drunk or drugged up or distracted or demented people that cruise around in two-ton metal vehicles and run over bikers, runners, and walkers, killing or maiming at the average rate of about one a week (?).

What is the rationale of knowingly putting yourself in danger? Is it an attitude that being run over -- or attacked by a shark -- is a long shot so they will risk their life or future well being -- the loss of a limb -- in the chance that some prehistoric monster fish won't rip them apart?

Link to article on today's shark attack in Vero.

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Asian tiger shrimp are spreading through the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Seaboard and menacing those areas' ecosystems.

The crustaceans can measure up to 13 inches long and weigh nearly a pound...

...last year the numbers suddenly increased tenfold in one year.

Like most other shrimp, the jumbo prawns are cannibalistic and because of their size, they can gobble up many of their smaller Gulf cousins and their larvae.

They also compete for the native shrimp's food supply and spread through their environs, disrupting the eco-balance.

Tiger shrimp spawn between 50,000 and 1 million eggs a cycle.

Once they take hold, it's nearly impossible to eradicate them.

Though last year's numbers appear small compared with the vastness of the Gulf, they represent a fraction of the actual number of tiger shrimp believed to be in the Gulf and along the Eastern Seaboard...

The real concern will be if their numbers continue to grow exponentially each year.

Note that our first post on this invasion of the exotic Asian tiger shrimp (Exotic Asian tiger shrimp in ocean waters near you?) regarded another article which noted the distinct possibility that this non-native Asian species was a disease carrier.

Although that first article was did specifically clarigy the disease issue, we are reminded of the invasive non-native Asian tiger mosquito which is now increasingly ubiquitous in the Caribbean and the lower southern states and is the carrier for the deadly dengue hemorrhagic"fever" disease.

The article also noted that the Asian tiger shrimp "escaped" from a lab in North Carolina. We have to wonder how a non-native exotic disease carrying shrimp -- relatively large -- could escape from the confines of a lab, and whether or not it may have been intentional.

That scenario also reminds us of the labs where technicians "experiment" with deadly diseases such as bubonic plague.

Then too there is the new deadly mutant H5N1 bird flu which has been reworked -- in a lab -- to be easily transmissable between humans (before which, it was only transmissable from animal to human). If you have not heard of this fiasco, a major controversy evolved whereby scientists desparately wanted to publish the method they discovered by which the H5N1 bird flu was mutated from a relatively harmless virus to a deadly pandemic virus. Think maybe those scientists were encouraged by bribe money from big pharma vaccine companies?

Ah, that's just good ole Rebublican social Darwinism: let's kill off the masses so we don't have to pay them back all the money they paid into their social security "trust fund", which politicians convert to treasury bonds to drain the cash out to use for their own pork barrel, earmark, bridge to nowhere projects for their own personal gain. The ole shameless Republican reverse-Robin-Hood robber-Barron trickle-up tactic of forcing disparate social inequality upon the masses...

Link to full article Asian tiger shrimp invade U.S. waters.

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Below are three vids, one of the recent beach erosion wiping a 10 foot swath of six foot high banks of beach dunes cultivated for the purpose of fighting beach erosion, one of a dead lionfish washed up on the beach, and some really icky black crud in ocean waters.

Note on the erosion video: the "fence" to cordon off the beach dunes was moved back several feet after the dunes had eroded.

So, you might look at the "fence" and surmise that the above noted "10 foot swath" might be an exaggeration, but it most definitely is not. Add to the obvious six feet swath of missing dunes at least another four feet.

Because, a couple of "workers" -- we actually saw them in the process of doing this -- went to the trouble of pulling up the posts (they were almost falling over anyway) and then digging new holes to replant them about four feet further inland to give more room on the beach at high tide(?), after which another six foot swath was quickly washed away...

We have reports of a problem with the embedded video below for some setups, so if the video "thumbnail" picture does not show up below, just click on this link to view the video on the YouTube site.

And, here is the vid of the dead lionfish. If you did not see the first post about this fish, it is an exotic non-native species which is abundant in the Keys, and is spreading up the coast. And, oh, those long dagger like protrusions, are loaded with toxic venom. Nothing to play around with, nor nothing to come in contact with in the ocean...

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The tar had a never-seen-before yellowish tinge to it, likely from the BP chemical "dispersants" that must now finally be coming around the horn soaked into some ultra gooey tar...

Saw some other people walking in the same area scrubbing their feet with seaweed, so the tar must be fairly abundant rather than scarce.

Also, the water as far as I went along the beach had a swatch of blackened dead seaweed roiling around about 10 feet from the sand of the beach, likely sucked back into the water from high tide, as we recently had 3 feet high and ten feet wide patches of washed up seaweed on the beach (click on this link to see a video of the epic seaweed invasion), and here in Hollywood they just let it rot (think compost in the hot sun) on the beach to get rid of it.

No jellyfish, but noticed a few more of some really strange sea life washed up on the beach. They are white bundles that look like bunches of carbuncles squished together, but they are definitely not carbuncles. Another sign that things are changing out there in the befouled warming Atlantic waters, and not for the better.

There was a fairly good crowd at the beach for a change, but very few ventured into the darkened water, everybodywas moslty just hanging out seeing and being seen, or being gawked at or gawking.

Check back tomoro, there is a rumor that one of the team is going to post a video of the beach erosion that has taken away walls of the beach dunes six feet high and more than ten feet wide in places that were nurtured (by planting sea oats) to prevent the beach from being washed away...

And, we will also try to get a link to the video of the lionfish spotted on the beach recently.

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