[greenbean36191]

The bodies of evidence supporting the impact of Everglades runoff and anthropogenic warming are in totally different leagues.

People have been writing about the historically poor development of the Keys reefs and how they shouldn't be used as canaries for the rest of the Carribean reefs longer than runoff from the Glades has been a problem. You see the same patterns of poor development and decline in parts of the Bahamas where there isn't the issue of runoff, but the bottom topography is similar. When people have looked for the nutrients from the Glades on the reefs they haven't found them except in short, rare pulses after extremely heavy rains. Those types of nutrient pulses are common throughout the Caribbean due to entirely natural causes, and generally don't cause long term problems. There is nothing about the FL case that seems to make it special. There are nutrient problems in some areas of the Keys, but they're mainly due to local sources, not the Everglades.

I can guarantee you that if you were to ask the president of the International Society for Reef Studies, which is devoted to reef conservation, he would tell you that trying to make a difference on the reefs by fixing the Everglades is a feel-good measure. There are plenty of man-made problems in the Keys, but there is very little evidence showing Glades runoff is one of them.