Pardon us if we don’t hold out much hope for this sham agency devised by DeSantis as a ploy to trick people into thinking he is actually interested in solving our water problems when he is not.
We have seen that, even as there are sometimes good people in this group, it is not designed to fix our problems.
Here, for example, we see Dr. Mike Parsons with the right answer from the beginning when he said the problem is excess nutrients in the water.
But then we see
“Chief Science Officer for the State of Florida, Mark Rains, said the goal for the time being is to improve matching data with models.”
Ever since we saw water district scientists throw out actual data in order to use theoretical data made up by models which they manipulated to get the answers they wanted, we are highly suspicious of models. They are not a substitute for extant data but they allow cheating scientists to get the answers they want to allow more help to polluters.
So this task force may be seeking solutions, but any they find won’t be implemented by DeSantis.
Read the complete article with photos here at WINKNews.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
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Blue-green algae task force seeking environmental solutions
Tuesday afternoon, the group tasked with leading the charge in fighting blue-green algae is focusing on solutions.
Florida Gulf Coast University professor and task force member Mike Parsons knows the number one problem in the ongoing blue-green algae battle.
“It comes down to nutrients, and so we have too many nutrients getting into the water, and that’s leading to these algal blooms, so we have to address the nutrient problem,” Parsons said….
Chief Science Officer for the State of Florida, Mark Rains, said the goal for the time being is to improve matching data with models.
“There are people who try to bring them all together, and because these are sort of compartmentalized efforts, sometimes it’s difficult to find that summary and synthesis,” Rains said.
“You can use the models to basically address issues and try to find solutions,” Parsons said. “But the one thing that we were really discussing in detail was how can you assess the performance of these models and if they are underperforming, let’s say, what is available to improve the models?…”
