Posted on 09/22/2010 12:59:33 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NEW YORK - Now that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well has been sealed, the long, hard work of assessing the damage begins even as the oil is dispersing throughout the Gulf.
A research team from Columbia University in New York returned this past weekend (Sept. 17 to 19) from a tour of duty in the Gulf of Mexico with new data to attempt to measure the location and magnitude of subsurface oil plumes, and their effects on the marine ecosystem, which have recently been the focus of much debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
They handle facts in their own way.....
So, essentially, we've paved the floor of the Gulf?
—in about the same proportion as if you put a pinhead sized piece of asphalt in an Olympic-sized swimming pool and let it sink-—
Does anybody know if the geological record records large oil releases? Or does nobody research nature's ejaculations with such fervor?
OMG, you mean like carboydrates, and complex protein molecules...stuff like that?
No. They mean the critters love to seek out and eat globs of hardening coal tars. It is far superior to their natural foods./sarc
Good Question...I don't have the answer....
If the critters in the Gulf have been around for the centuries...they may have eaten all of the evidence...
There are such things as Tar Pits on land...like out here in California.
No one has ever claimed that the ecology of the Channel is anything other than what it should be, even without knowing about the mounds of pure asphalt. Clearly, a slurry of tarry asphaltic oil at 5000 feet in the Gulf is even less likely ever to make a difference in anything.
Move along, eco-idiots. Nothing to see here. Really, nothing to see here.
dunno.
Except what happens when you disperse millions of gallons of surfactants.
As to the asphalt, mine it. The stuff is getting expensive.
sounds like tribal africans that sit in the desert and starve, rather than move to a place that has food...
The rest of the morons out there actually believe the liberal mainstream media, that this BP oil spill was a
disaster. Since the media lied aobut this what don't they lie about?
What are people thinking? The media blasts this all over the place for 3 months saying (Lying) , screaming that this was a great disaster, the end of the world blah blah blah. and then all of a sudden the media coverage of this “great disaster drops to practically zero when compared to the previous coverage. and people don't even question that. same thing with the swine flu pandemic that never was a pandemic. This bp oil spill was never a disaster.
1. This was no disaster. the liberal mainstream media lied.
2. More oil seeps out naturally out of the Ocean floor every year than this BP oil spill.
3. There is no oil on the Gulf coast, as in the beaches of Florida.
There is no oil on the land areas like the Gulf Beaches. But the liberal media said it would take 50 years to clean up the Gulf Coast. The media blasted this every day for 3 months and had everyone talking about it. Then all of a sudden the coverage is about 1/billionth of what it was . So did the disaster become 1 billion times less or was there never a disaster.
Even most on this conservative site still believe this bp oil spill was a disaster. People have to realize the mainstream media is a propaganda arm of the democrat party. The media are socialist political activists posing as reporters posing as journalists. EVERYTHING these evil lying socialists say or show should be ignored, not believed and or fact checked.
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