A blob twice the width of the US is heading towards Florida's coast

CNN's Rosemary Church interviews a leading scientist about a 5,000-mile-wide stinky seaweed blob that's headed for Florida beaches in the coming months. #CNN #News

[@Stormsteed]

Seems like this would be a perfect opportunity for the biofuel industry. If a biofuel facility was built offshore, barges full of harvested seaweed could take it to the facility for processing.

[@francismarion6400]

Why would you do that? This stuff naturally consumes CO2 and expels O2

[@MrDmadness]

Fun fact: ALL fuel is bio fuel.

[@terrypetersen2970]

Desantis doesn't want anything so woke.

[@hungmikepense9620]

Dream on. The threat to the status is your nemesis😢 Also this seaweed would create tons of hydrogen sulfide.. Industrial processes couldn't even keep up. They lost and its mother nature gonna cover the ocean. No more fish and no more. Cargo ships or navies Sinking it will create new hydrogen based life forms that will kill humans😂

[@billytheweasel]

@@terrypetersen2970 lol fact that's not funny cuz it's true.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*Somehow this is the least surprising headline of the year* “A blob twice the width of the US is heading towards Florida”. Well of course it is

[@DaimyoDude]

Let's call it DeSantis

[@samporter3453]

​@Nathan Webb That is such a f****** ignorant retarded f****** statement. His f****** state voted for him he won with overwhelming support. Florida is doing well for itself economically. I'm a Democrat myself m*********** so please explain to me what's so bad about the governor of Florida. You dumb hyper partisan stupid little b**** that kind of f****** rhetoric is going to lead to a f****** Civil War do you believe in American exceptionalism m*********** I bet you think the bombs will never reach our shore blood will never be spilled America will be different from every other Empire that has ever f****** existed, that's what you believe don't you? No Empire last forever and the United States is no different you f****** actually believe the right wont will revolt and kill you m************ but they will there is no God protecting you there is no flag protecting you there is no exceptionalism to be an American.

[@ruthejimenez]

Hahaha.

[@ruthejimenez]

​@@DaimyoDude Stinky putrid and good for nothing.

[@four4eyes]

Lol, hahaha...ahh, perfect

[@matt123411]

Sargassum, brown algae (seaweed), a term coined by Portuguese sailors-which has even been attributed to Christopher Columbus (1492 expedition: first time someone reported crossing the Sargasso Sea). Today, many, many, species of Sargassum have been identified; however, Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans are the most relevant to us. Small gas-filled spheres resembling berries, which keep the seaweed afloat, evoked memories of a type of grape known as salgazo (later sargaço). At first glance, beach-lovers might view it as nothing more than a foul-smelling annoyance (and sure, you may want to keep your distance once it starts to decompose); however, do remember that the once floating mats were home to (and source of food for) a huge variety of sea life. In fact, several creatures, like the Sargassum fish (a type of frogfish), are born, reproduce, and die solely within this environment! Sargassum is a prime nursery habitat for a diversity of large fish, such as mahi mahi (a.k.a. dorado, dolphin), sailfish, jacks, amberjacks, etc. Sargassum is edible, it’s harvested to feed livestock too, and you can fry, boil, steam or dry it. It’s played a part in Chinese medicine as far back as the 8th century, treating goiters (high iodine content) - and made into tea to control phlegm.

[@BUKWulfSh0t]

Is this wikipedia's copy and paste?

[@hmxr715]

He said this stuff is full of arsenic….a very poisonous metal.

[@dogscratchedoor]

If you like to eat fish you will now need to inherit a small fortune first.

[@zamz7978]

Oh great another one trying to show how much they know about things to grow his ego 🙄

[@hmxr715]

@Isaiah thanks for the info

[@herbertbrown119]

Been going to the beach in Florida for 50 years. Sargasso often washes up. It’s actually good for the beach as it retains the sand and helps build dunes

[@Chainyanker007]

In some places in the Caribbean it piles up 5-6’ deep. That ought to keep the sand in place.

[@herbertbrown119]

@@Chainyanker007 It made an island

[@karenneill9109]

I was thinking about Sanibel. They could use a big blob of the stuff right now to rebuild the beaches. It seems that the researchers here were very short sighted, with a tourism problem today, rather than long term ecosystem support.

[@herbertbrown119]

@@karenneill9109 It’s going to take along time for nature to rebuild what hurricane destroyed. Canaveral National Seashore had 20ft dunes between the road and the beach. Now , at high tide, the ocean covers the road for half the length of the beach. Still it’s better than bringing in sand that doesn’t belong there. They tried that at other beaches. It looks good but native species can’t always adapt. In some cases the sand fleas couldn’t burrow through the imported sand and died. Being a natural food source for local fish , the fish all left

[@karenneill9109]

@@herbertbrown119 I remember when they were importing sand into Sanibel. They killed a whole lot of the grasses that grew there, it was too salty or not salty enough or something. Anytime we mess with nature, we risk making it worse. I wonder how good this stuff is at absorbing oil….🧐

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

There's already a massive unnatural blob in Florida..at maralago.

[@chilogutierrez4166]

Trump derangement syndrome is real lmao

[@imfloridano5448]

🥁🥁🥁😂😂😂🤣😂👍👍👍

[@ericonelove9299]

Send the chinese over to eat the blob 😂

[@johnhammond9962]

nice one

[@Stupidityindex]

Blob, Blob, Blob. Anyone can spend 4 minute checking the arctic sea ice record & understand large mammals will be extinct within a decade.

[@davidhamilton7780]

Oh wait, let me ban a book about that!

[@lukeamato2348]

About the ocean having a sargasm ...lmfao

[@lukeamato2348]

Should make a book about the ocean blowing its sargasm everywhere

[@carlwilliams2769]

​@@lukeamato2348 🤣

[@dianahill5116]

It's full of garbage.

[@mrsmucha]

Good one!

[@Ra-ndY1]

His face when she said it could be seen from space. He was like uhm i think you adding too much spice to the story😂

[@lovepeace8918]

Everything can be seen from space, satellites can view the earth with such detail down to the surface of Earth. Nobody is in Space looking down, so very irrelevant, but Telescopic views from Satellite video can view everything.

[@spicychef7]

Mentions it without providing any image. Pointless.

[@nicoleenglish5245]

I learned a lot from this segment but MAN I would've fallen asleep if I had him as a professor. It took him 3 minutes to answer a question that he could've answered in 15 seconds!

[@ninjaundermyskin]

Hubris in action. I hear it a lot from intellectuals who take 15 minutes to answer a yes/no question, without adding any substantial information.

[@ivocanevo]

This is not how we expected the world was going to end.

[@alleynotes4197]

What did you expect in the end times?

[@ronswanson2088]

Oh calm down. Religious zealots who have little understanding of much outside their life love to claim the word is ending because of their inner frustrations with society. No, it’s not going to all collapse because your idea of society isn’t what you think it is. We will survive and push on. It is the way of nature. Something that religious types have ignored because they think “if it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen” and ultimately ignore the physics of dumping trash into the ocean. Lmfao. Wake up everyone.

[@billpetersen298]

Don’t worry, China is still working on it.

[@bigbk3278]

theres a plethora of ways Florida could end😂

[@bijoychandraroy]

It's moving towards Florida don't worry those sea weeds have no chance of beating them

[@angeldelcourt6882]

Very nice bloom. The greatest bloom ever. Beautiful bloom. I never seen such a great bloom. The Mar-a-Lago blob.

[@mailfraudvoter6620]

Wow same joke 1000 times below by other morons who beat you to it.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@oneirishpoet]

Nice 😁

[@donnadayle3762]

angel...like 'yellow rain'...lol!

[@pnw224]

Sounds like trump

[@EduardoOliveira-zx4yj]

TRUMP IS LIKE A STARFISH OR FLOUNDER .

[@investorbettor505]

This is the most common species of seaweed that we have floating in the shipping lanes off of the coast as Florida as well on beaches on the east coast of Florida so the type itself isn’t the issue it is the amount of the seaweed. It will be interesting to see how the water looks this summer 🤿

[@TanukiOfficial]

The guest, Dr. Brian Lapointe, was excellent! I learned so much, and he is so engaging. What a great guest to have on to describe what is happening with the seaweed. Great interview!

[@lavenderbluemama953]

My favorite part is that she keeps on referring to it as a blob, even after he explains the actual name. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@palodoxaliqua5809]

Sargasm probably sounded a bit too lewd for her to say 😆

[@rkm5369]

What do you expect from cnn

[@redrick8900]

Sargasm isn't the name of the shape. It's a description of the material. Both are "the actual name."

[@redrick8900]

@@rkm5369 Facts that makes racists mad.

[@wordswordswords8203]

LOL

[@blipco5]

There was a giant blob that left New York, stunk up Washington DC for a while then washed up at Mar A Lago. Lately it’s been seen circulating in the Mid West, still stinking up the place.

[@hillsofwi]

What color was it?

[@sharoncolvin8771]

I get it. Baa baa baa baa baa !!!! Said Blob is threatening to run for President on 2024 too !

[@jimmylieb5225]

🍊 of course. the 🍊🤡 Dump.

[@robertkennedy8503]

@@hillsofwi Orange, but is not it's natural color.

[@Latisha.1057]

💀😭🤣 Lol 🤣

[@Christian_Prepper]

*PLOT TWIST: the seaweed is just camouflage for an army of underwater sea creatures about to invade the U.S.* 😂

[@AndrewOrekhoff]

Sargassum seaweed is found in the Atlantic Ocean due to the presence of a large, clockwise ocean current system known as the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. This current system brings warm, nutrient-poor waters from the tropics into the Sargasso Sea, which is located in the center of the gyre. These conditions create an ideal environment for the growth of Sargassum seaweed, which can form large floating mats that provide habitat for a diverse array of marine life😂 So it's not so bad

[@carolrado5730]

Interesting, but your take on it means no tax money for climate alarmist grifts, so propaganda will con't to report the sky is falling.

[@chuck9380]

Your point?

[@AndrewOrekhoff]

Not all climate changes bad.

[@owenbruce4120]

Climate change 🙄 Only humans would be stupid enough to try and interfere n direct natural phenomena...other creature's will adapt accordingly and benefit

[@CH-kr2df]

Why aren’t you panicking and screaming about climate change 😂

[@bulletproofair]

Make sure to register with the state if you plan to "blog" about this...😏

[@samporter3453]

Make sure to know what you're talking about before you run your f****** mouth and spread this information ironically we need the department of truth for m************ like you.

[@b.t.2795]

If you're not under five feet of seaweed. 😬

[@jeffspicolli593]

The State is just trying to quarantine the mind virus coming from the left coast. Everyone needs to do their part.

[@sammorales3528]

We don’t need your sargasm….. 😂

[@Neimfeltrite]

Love it.

[@DoranJosephMusic]

Damn, didn’t know Ted Cruz was coming to Florida

[@stewarta5993]

to kiss the feet of donald

[@mannsolo6294]

Living in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico I'm used to seeing blobs show up every year... they usually come from the airports and Interstates though.

[@justsayen2024]

😅😂😅😂

[@tiffanyyisrael7989]

Exactly

[@sinmaticx3257]

the width of the US is about 4,500 km the distance from florida to africa is about 5,500 km. someone explain to me how a blob thats aprox. 9.5k km in size can fit in an ocean 5.5k km wide?

[@xensonar9652]

"So how did the word end? Nuclear war? AI? Aliens? Meteor?" "Seaweed."

[@deelopez6481]

Sargasm that is 😂

[@akinpaws]

Canfield ocean is a possibility.

[@sherryfestinger6312]

Around 60 or so years ago, we called the seaweed June grass, because it usually washed up about that time.

[@smokegasplaynintendo5767]

It never washed up like this though.

[@colmcgillveray1010]

And folk wore an onion on their belt, and a turkey was called a "Walking Bird"

[@gobigorange]

60 years ago.???? Your old as dirt Lol

[@ZanOrion]

Do you realize how big, 5,200miles is???

[@ZanOrion]

Once this hits the scene, it will have a new name! The name will reflect the massive impact!

[@georgesmith5201]

Finally Florida man has met his match.

[@JRoChi]

I hope the whole thing makes it way to the beach at Mar-a-Lago.

[@lorihamlin3604]

What is DeSantos saying about this invasion of his coast? Is he planning to load it up and bus it north? I was at the coast last summer and the beaches were disgusting. You couldn’t go into the water and that was a mild case of sar….. I’ll make sure not to go midsummer this year.

[@paulojrg]

"I'll build the greatest sea wall in the world to guarantee our freedom", one presidential slogan.

[@chonqmonk]

Buncha woke seaweed is picking on poor Meatball Ron. He's the biggest victim in this screwed up situation.

[@jonhamilton5789]

Maybe DeSantis will declare the seaweed “woke” and have it banned.

[@MichaelMoore-rc7ch]

We will expect to see truck loads showing up in Michigan wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois with no advance notice of course.

[@wokewokerman5280]

...he's planning to make vegan burgers for lefty nimrods....

[@sallyyabra]

The blooms pile up 5 to 6 feet high along the coast in Trinidad. It’s so high they form cliffs along the once beautiful beaches and with the constant waves hitting there are a of beach erosion.

[@YouTubeSucksDickCheese]

Yeah gyal! Bless up!

[@CatalinaFOIA]

😮

[@carlislepanting5219]

Watching from Belize central america I'm from and it's affecting us also! Thanks for the upload CNN news!!!✌🏽🙏🌎🇧🇿

[@huggybear9766]

WhenI was at Uni in the 90s. I did a project on water pollution. At the time the UK was said to have the worst waters surrounding it. The Irish Sea was the most radioactive, shellfish were presenting with rubbery shells , the North Sea had minimal Oxxygen (not to mention acid rain stories always in the news) and the channel separating UK from France was the worst for something else that I can no longer remember. I've been on the QM2 in 2007 when I was told we had to steer around floating masses of waste, mainly plastic, in the dead of night so it was not seen by the passengers - UK to New York. From the comments I've read it a seems to me that the gravity of the corporate pollution does not compute with most people making comments here. And please don't get me started on droughts and floods now that we are entering the Age of Aquarius! All seems to be an orchestrated operation

[@zoltore23]

Hold on! A blob already exists in Florida. His name is Ron DeSantis.

[@GODKINGEVERYTHING]

YOU SHOULD BE HUNTING 🪦👈 HIM DOWN FOR HUMANITY

[@lolalasziv1059]

Two blobs in Florida. Ron und Don.

[@accutronitisthe2nd95]

@@lolalasziv1059 You beat me to it! 🤣

[@GODKINGEVERYTHING]

🪦👈🪦👈 AND THEIR FAMILIES GET IT DONE NO MERCY FOR ANYTHING OR ANYONE STANDING WITH

[@dianahill5116]

Disown DeSantis.

[@mateuszminsky5619]

Sargassum is widely regarded as a bio-fertiliser in agriculture. This nutrient-dense macroalgae is rich in minerals, water soluble polysaccharides and phenolic compounds which collectively enhance soil health, quality, productivity and enzymatic activities.

[@caring-assoul_]

That’s crazy how nobody even asked you😒.

[@oneirishpoet]

Good then Ron DeSatan can start harvesting the stuff!

[@Mondfischli]

​@@oneirishpoet ...Ron deSalad in that case 😆

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

That seaweed is also rich in arsenic which their "expert" mentioned if you had only stayed around to hear what was said before commenting and leaving. Please take all of the arsenic laden seaweed to fertilise your home vegetable garden. I hear it makes a lovely tea as well.

[@getreal200]

everything is toxic it seems, I know they use iodine from seaweed to protect our thyroids from radiation, maybe it picks up alot of other toxins as well. Charcoal is used to detox arsenic, if it is also mixed in the soil with the seaweed, might be neutalized. Possibilities that can be looked in to.

[@Mofenbrau]

The width of the Atlantic Ocean is 3,000 miles. The width of the US is 2680 miles... how is this headline even possible?

[@yokaibyte2133]

Some companies have built water skimming machines to remove plastics, etc. I am sure they could adjust it to remove seaweed. Or I saw in Japan they use a type of rice glue (mochi?) to remove waste particles from water. Something like this might help sink the seaweed into the ocean and could be sprayed by a plane 🤔

[@thisismetoday]

That's not really the point though is it. That's a band aid. We need to fix the problem at hand, which is finally addressing climate change!!!!

[@jannettsnow]

Seaweed has always been in the ocean it's good for the ocean and land

[@SurprisinglyDeep]

@@jannettsnow Not this much though

[@gregcooks9]

He looks so defeated when she called it a blob again After he was clearly instructing her to say sargassom

[@katjay3125]

Stupid broad newscasters destoyed reporting

[@DoseofTruth]

"dont look up" comes to mind

[@VamooseRooter]

Blob is scary. News people like to scare ppl

[@krazytreRTM]

She's not calling it "The blob", she's using blob as a description.

[@lastcommodore2071]

There is always something weird about Florida.

[@jeffhampton2767]

California's more weird

[@danielleaddams]

That’s for sure 🙄 I have been living in Florida for the last 6 years now. Lot of weird stuff going on here every single day!

[@janncoons7445]

And it's always orange!

[@jeffspicolli593]

@@jeffhampton2767 California is infected with the woke mind virus.

[@shirleyrussell7089]

Yeah blame Dasantis

[@doctor_h]

This is going to end up being that one episode of seadogs from Duck Tales

[@breal7277]

She never once said the word 'sargassum ' even though he modeled it for her several times. 😂

[@Sendu7]

To those in Florida who think we are not changing the climate, just pretend the seaweed isn't there.

[@jeffspicolli593]

Everyone including those in Florida know that humans are "one factor" in the changing climate. The difference is that the uninfected people in Florida have no faith that wokesters can adjust the climate of a planet when they can't even control a border.

[@rievans57]

Seaweed, plastics, warm waters. The earth is trying to tell us something.

[@mehere8038]

seaweed is the trees of the ocean. Yes, the earth is trying to tell us something - it's much easier to grow biomatter to reduce atmospheric carbon in the oceans than as trees on land!

[@dianahill5116]

It's full of garbage.

[@b.t.2795]

​@@mehere8038 You should listen to the expert being interviewed.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

It hates Floraduh too?

[@jarls5890]

@@mehere8038 Unprecedented Sargassum inundation events cause a range of biological and ecological impacts in affected regions. The decomposition of large quantities of Sargassum along coastlines consumes oxygen, creating large oxygen-depleted zones resulting in fish kills.[30] Decomposing sargassum additionally creates hydrogen sulfide gas, which causes a range of health impacts in humans.[31] During the sargassum inundation event in 2018, 11,000 Acute Sargassum Toxicity cases were reported in an 8-month span on just the Caribbean islands of Guadalupe and Martinique.[32] Massive amounts of floating sargassum present a physical barrier preventing corals and seagrasses from receiving sufficient light, fouling boat propellers, and entangling marine turtles and mammals.[33][34] With every Sargassum inundation event, large amounts of nutrients are transported from the open ocean to coastal environments. This greatly increases nutrient transport, and its effect on marine and coastal ecosystems are still unknown.

[@nbuehster]

People talked about this on a comedy show, and one person joked about Florida being sucked in, and I crossed my fingers.

[@thisismetoday]

The world is so out of whack, and we are still not getting down to business to get shit resolved. I am sick and tired of it.

[@jaredh5475]

My 14 year old has been experiencing an extensive Sarcasm bloom as well 😢

[@Saybia1]

When someone gets your sarcasm and they don't get offended.. that's a turn on. 🤟 It will give you a sargasm!

[@admerin6961]

My first thought reading this headline was, "I thought he was headed to Waco for a rally."

[@lukeamato2348]

The ocean had a sargasm lmfao

[@jonnylang1564]

thanks

[@lawrenceleverton7426]

Well at least it knows what being a women is.

[@b.t.2795]

​@@lawrenceleverton7426 What's under your hood grandma? Trump dipstick? 😬

[@deelopez6481]

The ocean having more fun than me 😢😅

[@CharlesGriswold]

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about this. Here's what it came up with: Sargassum seaweed, sprawling and strong, Suffocates sea life, sounds the sad song. Sand and surf, once a sunny scene, Sully under seaweed, stinky and obscene. Squishy and slimy, the seaweed spreads, Sapping the shores, sea turtle beds. Swimmers and sunbathers stay away, Sargassum scaring them, spoiling their day. So scientists seek solutions, save the sea, Studying Sargassum, stop its spree. Stopping its spread, strategies sought, Solving Sargassum's sea-scouring spot.

[@dark12ain]

​@Carey the future.

[@sluxi]

@Carey it's an AI chatbot.

[@PatOlsson]

Not bad!

[@CharlesGriswold]

@@dark12ain I, for one, welcome our new AI chatbot overlords.

[@crealizecoaching]

The scientists wandered, oh how do we stop This mighty anf yucky sargasm blob

[@kelving.2200]

You don't gotta be a frickin rocket scientist to figure this out. I've been talking bout this crazy seaweed for years

[@lSAMV31l]

He refuses to call it a blob.. lol

[@jaiselknotoff8698]

Let's hope the world figures out how to leave nature alone .

[@ghostofsilence2697]

We won't. Therefore, nature won't leave humanity alone.

[@dh911]

Wisest comment on here so far!❤

[@denisel]

We absolutely know how to do it, we just won't. No profit to be made.

[@herbertbrown119]

This is nature

[@freemusicforyou2011]

Nature always gives you back what you have put in before. Part of the circle of life. People often call it as karma.

[@stevea2909]

this time it's called Crap

[@samporter3453]

That's not karma karma is not do good things good things happen to you do bad things bad things happen to you that's not f****** karma that is an ignorant Western view of f****** karma karma comes from f****** Hinduism

[@b.t.2795]

Mother nature certainly isn't fond of DeSantis.

[@freemusicforyou2011]

@@stevea2909 humanity should grow up and starts to recycle every crap that it puts out in the water, air, soil, even space, cause one day we all will sink in this crap

[@beantownbeatdown]

As you post from your computer/phone that no doubt had detrimental effects on the environment and people.

[@UchihaOPBrian]

It's really wild in the Caribbean especially the Island I'm from. The beaches on the east of the island are so horrible right now because of all the seaweeds

[@andywb3627]

I’m no environmental expert but I’m pretty sure using “1600 dump trucks a day “ just to clear the beach for tourism is more environmentally impactful than the actual seaweed .

[@nickgarcia6572]

They never really addressed the cause but my understanding is that it's agriculture related. Large quantities of animal waste often leak into waterways and makes its way to the ocean. The excess phosphate and nutrients from that are fuel for a super-bloom. When you think about how many millions of animals are raised for food each year... well, all that you-know-what has to go somewhere. And the fertilizer used to grow the food those millions of animals eat. Inevitable some'll end up in the ocean

[@truthhurts5158]

Because they don't know what the cause is yet. They are just blaming on climate change because thats what they blame everything on and they need money for research

[@chucklindenberg1093]

Really related to agriculture huh? I wonder exactly how much agriculture pollution you think it would take to measurably increase the concentrations of excess phosphate and nutrients that far out in the ocean i.e. where the Sargasso Sea is actually located? It is almost like you haven't a clue what you are talking about, but honestly I don't want to assume that I know your general level of knowledge on the subject of sargassum sea weed. In fact I would suggest that the scientist who was interviewed for this piece doesn't even know why Sargasso Sea exists in the first place just owing to the reality of oceans. Generally the farther you are from land and in deep ocean water the less life there is, almost like a desert in a giant body of water. The area where the Sargasso Sea is located is at least a thousand miles from the coast of the US, so you might want to first start considering why anything grows there at all. *They never really addressed the cause* You mean other than nebulous links to climate change right, because it seems like when any thing that seems to a be new occurrence is now conveniently blamed on climate change or agricultural pollution if the former can't directly be linked to said event. *And the fertilizer used to grow the food those millions of animals eat. Inevitable some'll end up in the ocean* Sure how far from US do you think that agriculture pollution moves since there are roughly at least a thousand miles between the US and the Sargasso Sea? Also I am really struggling to figure out how global warming caused this event, when there have been plenty of years that were far warmer than last year, and where the logical events that could be blamed for an increase sargassum seaweed weren't as intense. Also also, I look for sargassum weed when fishing offshore, so I am pretty sure this "scientist" is way over stating the problem here, not to mention the actual effects of this event and the cause.

[@RivalRed]

@@chucklindenberg1093 I really enjoyed reading this, thanks!

[@mygirl1129]

I think I heard today, that Nitrogen used in growing plants can also contribute to the blooms through runoff.

[@letspartyallthetime]

Agreed. The ocean is becoming very toxic from all the runoff, including that from fertilizer. It has to go somewhere and that's where it's going with the problem exacerbated by warmer water.

[@accutronitisthe2nd95]

Florida's coast, can't think of a better place! Enjoy Ronny! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrissparks3254]

What is wrong with you?

[@d20audioediting]

​@@chrissparks3254aww cup cake take the MAGA brand tampons out

[@chrissparks3254]

@@d20audioediting Looks like we have another libtarts baby killing Trump hater in the comments 😂

[@Mike-jv4rz]

@@d20audioediting Take yours out first- you think men can have babies don't you🤡🤣

[@alex35agm]

Everything is migrating to Florida, even sea weed.

[@MoReal2]

Scientists : our ecosystems are dying Murrica : is this going to affect the spring break ?

[@carpathianoverland]

Can show an aerial photo of it?

[@Franklin0222]

I love that for the blob living their own life. 🙏🏻Experiencing life one step at a time and growing along the way 🥲

[@zackzeman6449]

😑

[@ronswanson2088]

Reminds me of the book “the cloud”.

[@Excalibur_86]

Mother nature coming for FL

[@b.t.2795]

Second time for Florida in a short time. 😬

[@WeThePeople_Trump2024]

Wish it would come for Commiefornia

[@thed3008]

@@WeThePeople_Trump2024 Damn, this is the dumbest thing to argue over. Left or Right, you're all equally stupid

[@misterhat5823]

@@WeThePeople_Trump2024 Why? We need California. Florida is just where we send our idiots. It contributes nothing.

[@eunicedesouza8279]

Now guv-in-White-boots will have to make a new proclamation declaring nature as woke. The seaweed must be the latest Biden attempt to keep open borders to illegal arsenic invaders😂😂😂

[@Utubefan687]

Can it not be used as fertilizer?

[@bostonkid9096]

this is the last time I'm watching the news

[@derickshalo384]

Beautiful beaches will be seen in museums in time to come.

[@drmodestoesq]

Dioramas, presumably. Or maybe a short removed section of actual beach. The short section of removed beach would leave another beach behind it. A tiny cove, as it were.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Marine Life

[@ziggy33399]

Interesting to see how this develops over the next weeks, as I’m on the gulf coast still trying to recover from hurricane 🌀 IAN.

[@francismarion6400]

it lands when the tourists are gone

[@buzz5969]

And why I never returned.

[@sinabagherisarvestani8924]

I'm not an expert here , but can't we feed it to livestock like cows or sheep or pigs ? Would they even eat this stuff ?

[@je8784]

Vladimir Desantis says you are fine, don't need any help. He's busy destroying Disney and people's rights.

[@brian6391]

@@francismarion6400 The tourists never leave the gulf coast man they just come in waves but there's always stragglers here looking for good deals in the off season.

[@MonsterMacLLC]

Incentives for restaurants with seaweed dishes!

[@kirbymae4870]

No way. I couldn’t put my face on television for these “actors” that are supposed to be our leadership.

[@joedadda3105]

RIP Florida u will be missed.

[@hellisreal6755]

liar... nobody cares

[@crazycatmama2098]

No they won’t. Can’t fall in the sea fast enough.

[@joedadda3105]

@@crazycatmama2098 u dont know until its gone lol

[@chrisb9740]

Not matter how big the blob is, it will surely improve Florida.

[@TrolltrainForever]

It's going to kill wildlife...

[@francismarion6400]

Aids is the cure for homosexuality

[@alysononoahu8702]

I hope it's really stinky

[@jimmylieb5225]

it emits hydrogen sulfide upon decomposition. will go great with the gases from Deathsantis' red tide.

[@KB-ke3fi]

New Yorker invasion is not improving anything there...trust me.

[@ondremclean7220]

Are we dumb? This seaweed is prime fuel.

[@AHG93]

Its just one thing after another these days. The news never surprises me anymore

[@l9ikjam]

I remember being in st thomas and this stuff was washing up on all of the beaches. They had crews constantly working to clear the beaches. They were hauling away dumpsters full of the blob lol

[@ConalRF]

Not the strangest thing to happen this decade.

[@CR-xu2mw]

Anyone who has recently traveled to the Caribbean is well aware of the annoyance this has become

[@justme.9711]

It's a floating marine supermarket and nursury.

[@mikeg9341]

Because the water has alot of posphate. Which attract algae bloom or seaweed. Pretty much what happens in a reeftank if the level of posphate is high.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

tell the seagulls to stop shitting

[@misterhat5823]

@@Ass_of_Amalek Desantis will fight for the right for seagulls to shit!

[@28th_St_Air]

Phosphate from fertilizer run off. Yes?

[@rRobertSmith]

you misspelled phosphate even with spell check...how is that even possible?

[@chillxxx241]

Isn't there a shortage of phosphate? Could people utilize this for animal feed or fertilizer?

[@brian6391]

Question is why did so much of this release at the same time like this? I've lived in fortwalton for 15 years and I'm used to red tide and sea weed but I've never seen anything of this magnitude.

[@marcamaral7870]

It’s because we didn’t tax people enough. With some more taxes, all will be good 👍🏼

[@jacobgoodstone7572]

I would assume there are a ton of seeds in the water and they all germinate at once. Also this thing could have been growing for a while. But that's just my guess

[@lolow6364]

I can single handedly eat the entire blob of seaweed. Put me in coach.

[@Max-zv1bu]

Twice the width of USA? That sounds like the size of entire Atlantic Ocean.

[@rideshareog]

I'm to understand that the seaweed has a stench. I wonder how the people of Florida will notice that stench over their Governor's stank?

[@cherylnm888]

Could not happen in a better place

[@THE-X-Force]

It affects all of us. These enormous "dead-zones" with no oxygen for fish will have huge consequences.

[@Kghost0311]

If it's twice the width of the US, which is 3,000 miles, and the Atlantic Ocean is only 3,000 miles wide. How is it twice as wide??? Only thing I was good at in school was math, history&geography, and shop...... 🤦‍♂️

[@R083RTshorts]

You say it can be seen from space, then SHOW us the pictures, videos, THE PROOF. journalism has gone downhill

[@Stanley-px3bt]

A state full of climate change deniers is going to get slammed by a giant plant in the sea. The irony.

[@jeffspicolli593]

They aren't climate change deniers they just have the wisdom to know that wokester ideas (feels rather than reals) can't change the climate on a planet.

[@CptSpears007]

This could be the best “yo moma “ setup ever.

[@PS3DJ09]

I always thought sargassum was when someone facetiously pretended to climax

[@jessemackenzie6516]

Reading this title I legititmantly caught off guard. I immediately thought " here we go" alien's are coming like the movie about the green blob. I was NOT thinking seaweed. Good job CNN .... I clicked.....

[@V.Oakley]

You scoop it up, heat it, let it dry. It's great on plants and garden beds and in salad......

[@dianahill5116]

It's full of garbage.

[@TankZappa]

It's filled with arsenic. Can't eat it. Plus it causes dead zones in the ocean killing off millions of fish. Things like this will (and already have) become normal with global warming. Eventually it will cost us dearly.

[@bullpup1337]

except it’s poisonous. next time watch the video before commenting

[@stevea2909]

and smoke it!

[@mehere8038]

@@bullpup1337 5 minutes in the sun & it's not! Look up how to remove arsenic from seaweed!

[@sassynana5201]

I sure hope Desantis can stop attacking U.S. citizens long enough to be proactive and actually do something that BENEFITS people.

[@dianahill5116]

Disown DeSantis.

[@samporter3453]

​@@dianahill5116 And please tell me m*********** who do you support because everybody besides Nikki Haley or Andrew Yang doesn't belong anywhere near the f****** White House.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

Never happen

[@eruis3139]

don't hold your breath

[@indiasupportstrumpwwg1wga927]

@@dianahill5116 how about nah?

[@dbcooper5033]

What people don't know is the seaweed or vegetation that grows in the ocean is where we get our oxygen

[@Moellmoell]

*Is there any chance that it will make it to maralago asap so it can take it's master with it?*

[@fezfreak6248]

When they have nothing else to scare us with….

[@Muttinchopsforeverstrong]

How sweet it was lost and is returning home . No worries meatball Ron will put on his white boots and push it to the Texas coastline.

[@kimh827]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dennisboisvert3143]

Producing oxygen and absorbing carbon Seaweed produces more oxygen that land plants. In fact, around 70% of the oxygen we breathe comes from seaweed. Not only does it release oxygen into the atmosphere, but seaweed also absorbs and stores carbon, helping us combat climate change.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

It is also it's own ecosystem. So, it's not quite "destroying" ecosystems as opposed to replacing them.

[@asafoster7954]

It is destroying them to replace them, not mutually exclusive

[@register1430]

The field of study is young, but "we're finding [sargassum] can contain heavy metals, including arsenic. It has fairly high concentrations of the toxin," he said. "There's a concern that, through leaching, that could impact groundwater."

[@laurielee3791]

Scary thought!

[@fishmojo865]

We recently were in Playa del Carmen area of Mexico Caribbean Sea. Sargasso weeds overwhelming the beaches. Workers would come out in the early morning and clean up tons of the weeds. Next tide, right back again. Areas that weren’t cleaned up had tons of we’d mass decomposing and smelled awful. This is a bad sign for the health of the oceans.

[@jimmylieb5225]

It is nature's retribution for human overpopulation, destruction of rainforests, pumping tons upon tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day. nutrient runoff from farms and CAFOs.

[@HashknightGaming]

Lol the ocean doesn't always smell good just like any other part of life.

[@PeterSedesse]

It isn't bad or good for the ocean, it is mixed. It isn't necessarily bad for beaches either. What it is bad for is tourism.

[@ctruth6185]

It came from the oceans. The Sargasso Sea has been around forever and sargassum sea weed hasn't harmed the oceans. Pipe down. Sargasso will save the lives of over fished species. It can also be used as fertilizers but Americans are too lazy to make use of it. By "Americans" I'm referring to Central America, South America & North America.

[@michaelbeavis2632]

@@ctruth6185 OBVIOUSLY, a weapon sent by SATAN and the Deep to attack Mar-a-Lago, Ron DeSantis and all the God-fearing Christians of Florida. We must REPENT, fast and pray that CHRIST JESUS will break up this demonic attack from Hell.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

I like how a blob of seaweed takes more news precedence over blob of trash. There's still a trash island in the Pacific.

[@adaneboateng]

Who else didn't know what that was and thought it was some astronomical object heading for our demise 😂😂😂

[@Minskpotato]

Damm that looks fun, a shit ton of seaweed, could probably build a house of seaweed. Edit: Yes I’m smoking seaweed rn👌🏻

[@krobbins8395]

I seen a story about a company in India creating seaweed edible plastic and glue that's compost friendly now understandably this does not look friendly but maybe it could be harvestable for a purpose in industry?

[@macforme]

K Robbins: maybe turned into park benches or Amazon packing material?

[@garyshields2734]

That seaweed is extremely nutritious!! It could be dried and used as fertilizer. It's filled full of valuable trace minerals the full needs.

[@ProdavackaDivu]

Unfortunately he said it is high in arsenic… 🤔

[@garyshields2734]

@@ProdavackaDivu That's disgusting. I have to buy seaweed from Japan. It's expensive and you don't get a lot. I wonder where the arsenic came from in that seaweed. It might be in the Japanese seaweed but they eat it.

[@jacko4483]

It's frightening to think of how large this is. If it keeps going like it is I fear for the wheat fields of Kansas😢😬

[@dispmonk]

What a useless, nonsensical, dramatic comment.

[@jacko4483]

@@dispmonk yeah, whatever. Go eat some more lemons and go yell at the kids to get off of your lawn.

[@Randy-jz9ox]

The blob that ate Chicago is back!!! Now it wants Tallahassee!!!

[@bigtex4058]

For luncheon it munched on a suburb or two and for dinner it ate the whole town.