Posted on 01/10/2017 7:42:04 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Contrary to their own scientific intuition, Cornell researchers found that the body size of intertidal oysters didnt change after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This offers evidence that either the mollusks recovered rapidly or that the accident lacked the severity to affect growth.
After the initial explosion April 20, 2010, which sank the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible rig, about 3.2 million barrels of oil poured into the northern Gulf of Mexico until the well was capped July 15.
The scientists believe that the travel distance of the oil gave it time to degrade, and bacterial presence in the tissue and mantle fluids of Gulf Coast oysters can process and degrade ingested oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cornell.edu ...
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The very obvious flaw in their reasoning is that petroleum is not an unnatural substance in the ocean.
The beaches of So. Cal used to be black with petroleum before the drilling platforms moved in to relieve the pressure below.
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That also happens to be my advice to my son about the ladies in his life,
But! But! Shrinkage!
Depends on which barrels!
From Wiki; “Although crude oil is sometimes shipped in 55-US-gallon drums, the measurement of oil in barrels is based on the whiskey barrels of the 1870s which measured 42 US gallons (35 imp gal; 159 L). The measure of 42 US or wine gallons, corresponds to a wine tierce”
Oil in it’s ‘natural state’ has been leaking into our oceans since the dawn of time.
Santa Barbara beaches have oil leaking out of the cliff face and tar balls and blacken sand on the beach itself.
This would be a major oil spill but as it is nature and no company to sue the whackos don’t complain.
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/kids_teachers/Seeps/seep2/Pages/photo_03.aspx
Always wondered if the oil company told Obama from the start, “If we can make a clean cut on the old pipe there is a very good chance we can seal the well, even though the rate of oil that escapes will increase for a very short time while we work on it.” But Obama made them use cobbled up repairs that didn’t work and the oil spilled for at least 2 extra months than it would have.
LOL! that’s Great! :-)
Amazing. The beaches, the fishing...etc all clean after the last hurricane.
The audacity that Americans have mucked up our environment. We’re one of the few who do what we can.
Ten years after humans leave this planet the planet will grow over our buildings and roads.
100 years from now, it will be gone.
We are just passing through.
I don’t one dime of my tax dollars given to these creepy pinkos.
I don’t have that “problem”! hehehe
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Oil actually boils up out of the Santa Barbara channel.
From the cliff you can often see slicks floating by.
Had black foot plenty of times from walking the beach at low tide.
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Don’t forget the environmentalists in CA that fought the rigs being built and then turning around and begging the oil companies to leave the legs when the rigs were decommissioned, because they had become important structures for the fish.
oooo...I didn’t know about that one! hehehe
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