Posted on 07/26/2010 3:08:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I keep telling you, that it is not the corexit, it is the oil that is the problem. That problem may be exacerbated by the use of corexit, which holds the oil in suspension, rather than let it sink to the bottom, but since corexit has never been used in such vast amounts, we cannot possibly know what the long term damages might be. We may have large patches of dead sea through out the gulf, or it might spread out and dissipate. We just don’t know. The only thing we do know is that the spill seems to be disappearing from sight at a rapid rate. Most of the visible damage is going to be along the shoreline, where Bobby Jidal fought the Obama administration to protect the shoreline.
Like I said, it is not the corexit that is the problem, it is the oil that combines with the corexit. All the symptoms which are attributed to the corexit are symptoms of benezene poisoning. I’m not saying that there wasn’t a whole lot of concern about using so much corexit. There was a great deal of concern, but the bad weather helped by churning the seas and dispersing the clouds of oil laden corexit molecules.
You are a hopless brainwashed shill, Warthog. Now we all know. Thanks.
The only problem with that scenario is that the EPA has also been routinely measuring air and water for benzene, and the concentrations found are nowhere near high enough to cause those kinds of symptoms. The levels detected rarely exceed 1ppm, which is NOT enough to cause the acute poisoning type symptoms you are referring to. At 1ppm, the only effect long term is a very rare type of cancer, which won't show up in the exposed party for many years after the exposure.
Nope. I just decide things based on real hard scientifically validated FACTS, and not smoke and mirrors from conspiracy theory green websites.
Point out any single thing that is incorrect about my calculations or the facts I quote.
The simple fact is that in order for any chemical to be poisonous, it has be actually "be there". Hard scientific measurements show that it simply isn't, having either decomposed or been diluted far below any harmful level.
Who am I supposed to be a "shill" for??? I don't work for BP, or any other chemical company (although I "did" work for one years ago). What I currently do is design instruments to do the same kind of measurements that the EPA is currently carrying out (though not for the same species....my work addresses biowarfare and disease agents rather than things like benzene and Corexit...though I am VERY familiar with the technology used to measure them).
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