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by snakehead
on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 05:04
#488358
GW, WTF? You title a section 'There is a "Lake of Oil" in the Gulf' and then write "I don't know about this claim." Simmons is clear that it's a "lake" of thick, black oil that he believes is there. In a particularly nefarious move he's claimed that that's what staff aboard the Thomas Jefferson relayed to him and that it's in their reports, which is clearly untrue. Not dispersed "plumes" measured in ppm, but a lake. Thick, black oil. In fact, the claimed size of Lake Simmons would hold ~250 times the world's known reserves. If that's not enough to just stop right there, what would be?
What's next, vaccines cause autism? And why is ZH putting this junk up top?
BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - After the Storm - and Open Thread
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by TomJoad
on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 09:37
#488511
I haven't been posting on this subject because the misinformation has been so entertaining. I am on scene on one of the largest oceanographic research vessels working in the GOM. I am not being paid by NOAA or BP. This is a factual statement: Beyond 20 NM from the wellhead we have not detected subsurface oil at any depth in concentrations above 20PPM, beyond 40NM we have not detected any oil above 2PPM that was associated with Deepwater Horizon. We have seen the usual seep concentrations around Vioska Knoll, Green Canyon, etc.