. The high surface salinity in the Atlantic on which the Atlantic thermohaline circulation is dependent is maintained by two processes: the Agulhas Leakage/Rings which brings salty Indian Ocean waters into the South Atlantic and the "Atmospheric Bridge" which evaporates subtropical Atlantic waters and exports it to the Pacific, 1910 752,619 42.4% Miami bass innovators include Maggotron and Luther Campbell's 2 Live Crew the lyrics to Miami bass are sexually explicit so when 2 Live Crew achieved national attention these lyrics caused a controversy Several music stores were prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling the disc and the members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing songs from the album Nasty as They Wanna Be the charges were subsequently dropped, The clockwise warm-water North Atlantic Gyre occupies the northern Atlantic and the counter-clockwise warm-water South Atlantic Gyre appears in the southern Atlantic. J A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program, A satellite image of the Everglades taken in March 2019 Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda who lived with the tribes of southern Florida for seventeen years in the 16th century said that the Mayaimis lived in many towns of thirty or forty inhabitants each and that there were many more places where only a few people lived the game and fish of Lake Okeechobee provided most of the Mayaimis' food They used fishing weirs and ate Black bass eels American alligator tails Virginia opossum terrapins and snakes and processed coontie for flour in high-water season they lived on their mounds and ate only fish. 3.1.2 Main University Park buildings, Miami Florida Business directory. . The city government under former mayor Manny Diaz took an ambitious stance in support of bicycling in Miami for both recreation and commuting Every month the city hosts "Bike Miami" where major streets in Downtown and Brickell are closed to automobiles but left open for pedestrians and bicyclists the event began in November 2008 and has doubled in popularity from 1,500 participants to about 3,000 in the October 2009 Bike Miami This is the longest-running such event in the US in October 2009 the city also approved an extensive 20-year plan for bike routes and paths around the city the city has begun construction of bike routes as of late 2009 and ordinances requiring bike parking in all future construction in the city became mandatory as of October 2009, At the end of the third quarter of 2008 Florida had the highest mortgage delinquency rate in the U.S. with 7.8% of mortgages delinquent at least 60 days a 2009 list of national housing markets that were hard hit in the real estate crash included a disproportionate number in Florida the early 21st-century building boom left Florida with 300,000 vacant homes in 2009 according to state figures in 2009 the US Census Bureau estimated that Floridians spent an average 49.1% of personal income on housing-related costs the third highest percentage in the U.S.
In 2011 there were about 9,000 retail gas stations in the state Floridians consumed 21 million gallons of gasoline daily in 2011 ranking it third in national use behind California and Texas Motorists have the 45th lowest rate of car insurance in the U.S 24% are uninsured. . !
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