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Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface
An anonymous reader sends in a NY Times article about the spread of oil from the BP gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Quoting:
"Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide, and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given. ... The plumes are depleting the oxygen dissolved in the gulf, worrying scientists, who fear that the oxygen level could eventually fall so low as to kill off much of the sea life near the plumes. Dr. Joye said the oxygen had already dropped 30 percent near some of the plumes in the month that the broken oil well had been flowing. ... [Scientists on the Pelican mission] suspect the heavy use of chemical dispersants, which BP has injected into the stream of oil emerging from the well, may have broken the oil up into droplets too small to rise rapidly. ... Dr. Joye said the findings about declining oxygen levels were especially worrisome, since oxygen is so slow to move from the surface of the ocean to the bottom. She suspects that oil-eating bacteria are consuming the oxygen at a feverish clip as they work to break down the plumes."
No. You don't get to get away with this one. The left may spew slogans, but the right produces mantras. Mantras that are to be chanted until they become truth. This was one of them. They need to eat every one of those words.
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You're right. The Chinese will handle it better if we stay out of there and let them explore and drill instead. Which they will.
One, you're a dumbass, and two, BP is getting their ass reamed in the media over here. Granted, we care less about the deep ocean than we do about the coastline, but harm to the environment is far and away the chief concern, and in that regard we've been pretty fortunate that very little oil has touched ground, but your anti-American bullshit isn't grounded in any sort of reality.
BP is a European based company, by the way, fucking up our environment, you asshole.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
And who owns BP and TransOcean?
A clue, look closer to home.
If this spill is America's fault, those spills are Europe's, dumbass.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller