From what I've seen, 99% of what is floating around is garbage. The level of hype exceeds even that about Obama during the late election.
"On the other hand, I am not familiar with your screen name here and have no idea whether you have expertise in the field of deep sea oil spills or you yourself have an agenda such as a job that depends on the continued existence of BP."
And here I thought I was famous (or at least infamous). Me: PhD chemist, specialty analytical chemistry, worked for twenty years in the petrochem industry (NOT for any oil company), also background in nuclear issues (college minor), now co-owner of a small, high-tech company that designs chemical analysis instrumentation. Forty years total as a practicing scientist. Wife is also PhD chemist, but worked in petroleum engineering (enhanced oil recovery). Sis-in-law is a geophysicist in Houston with a 20 year career in 3D seismic with many productive wells to her credit (she's never worked for BP, and what she says about them would blister the paint off the walls).
Sub-issue, I grew up in South Louisiana in the midst of the "oil patch", and love my home state as much as any native.
I've got no ax to grind whatsoever except to try to correct at least a SMALL portion of the gigantic amount of mis-information that is being "spewed" about the spill.
"I did not invent my the list. It came from reading a lot of what has been written about the incident and I did admit having no background other than that."
Sometimes I can be a bit "testy", because there ARE a lot of people commenting that "do" have an agenda (typically a "green" one, or "anti-big business"). At times it's hard to tell the truly under-educated from the trolls. If that's the case here, my apologies to you.
Re..links. I "do" try to post at least some links to the most-relevant stuff, but I read so many sources in a day that keeping track of them is virtually impossible.
OK. I take your answers seriously now and feel a lot better about those floating snot globs of oil knowing they are not long for this world. I am not anti-big business unless they are run by the government. As for greenies, they should all be informed that the Nazis had a very well developed green agenda. Maybe there’d be fewer enviro whack jobs and the neighbor’s kid wouldn’t be having a funeral for a bug her dad stepped on. As for me, my agenda is red, white and blue.
Thanks for the follow-up. Apology accepted.
P.S. I haven’t been here long enough to appreciate everyone who is famous or infamous.
I have had an opportunity to think further about your answer as well as get more informed about Corexit and what BP is up to in the Gulf. I believe there is a good possibility that you are relying on second hand information that is deliberately false. And know this - BP is pre-spraying areas along the coast BEFORE the oil reaches the area AT NIGHT. Corexit is also, thanks to the proximity of the spraying, settling on land, including peoples’ back yards. Is this a reasonable preventive measure? If you find reason to change any of your answers from the other day, I would appreciate knowing. Thank you.
P.S. People in effected areas of Alabama and LA can smell a very strong very irritating chemical odor in the air. In your opinion, would this be off gassing from the well (sulfuric acid is one possibility) or the smell of Corexit?