This is just a guess but Florida is very humid, so I think the humidity would cause late afternoon thunderstorms.
Carbon is an important component in living things as it is present in the food of living things in the form of saccharides such as glucose and polysaccarhides such as starch. Hence the answer to this problem should have to be A. Carbon is a source of energy.
In this item we are given that the methane emission rate will go high due to the foreseen temperature rise cause by global warming. The biogeochemical cycle that will be affected directly through this is the Carbon cycle.
Methane is a compound comprised of one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen. Carbon cycle involves the process in which the carbon dioxide emitted by the organisms will be absorbed by the producers. The carbon which are to be absorbed by producers should come in the form of carbon dioxide.