Posted on 11/15/2010 7:00:40 AM PST by kingattax
I have become a mega cynic. I dont believe anything including much of what I learned at goverment indoctrination school.
They have been photoshopping pics since photos were invented and now they have the holographics that can make you see things that did not really happen.
Thats funny, I recall the Bible saying something about that. And It was written over 2,000 years ago.
The great deception
Bump.
If you had predicted that a few months after the oil spill, the fish population would be a lot larger than before the spill, you would have been characterized as a typical right-wing, environment-hating crazy. Who’s laughing now? Another leftist the-sly-is-falling scenario has been played out, and once again the leftists are dead wrong about practically everything they predicted.
Holy crap. That web site is frightening.
Indeed....
Naturally seeping oil is one thing, the microbes can handle that. But this spill is something else again.
Listen to me carefully here, folks.
The oil is sitting on the ocean floor, coating the eggs of the next generation of seafood. That is EXACTLY what Corexita is designed to do.
http://blogs.wsj.com/financial-adviser/2010/07/22/warren-buffett-is-big-on-clean-water/
Oil has been seeping into the gulf for millenia. It’s natural to begin with, its a base food for a huge part of the eco-system: bacteria eat it and are eaten in turn. I’m not remotely surprised that the Gulf is doing fine.
I remember at the time that some FReepers were raving, really raving about the oil-spill being the literal end of life on earth. That was an eyeopener!
A lot of people seem to believe that crude oil is more deadly than Plutonium. They consult insanely one-sided fright-sites to keep themselves in a state of paroxysm not noticeably different from that of the AGW cultists.
In reality, the nonhuman part of the Gulf is doing great: Obama crushed the Gulf’s economy (the human part) by banning drilling and over-regulating use of the gulf littoral. He’s the reason the Gulf economy is hurting - not BP.
Oh....BARF!
And what does that tell you? Whenever I read a breathless "The Sky Is Falling" environmental site, I know what to think.
We live on the west coast of Florida and it has not, up until now, affected fishing in the least. Hubby yesterday brought home his limit of gag grouper (of course they’re talking about stopping any harvest of those come January) and snapper. They go fishing every week and have not seen any decline whatsoever (of course they’re fishing close to shore) no more than a couple miles offshore, so I couldn’t know what deep water is like.
It also would stand to reason that the geographic distribution of sea life might have been altered. The fish simply move away from the oil spill. That would increase the density of fish in unaffected areas temporarily.
Look past the site it’s simply a gathering spot. The articles on there are from a very wide range of sources.
You are ignoring historical large oil spills that did not produce the effect you claim.
Look up the PEMEX Ixtoc 1 for a Gulf of Mexico example.
I had a different theory. If much of the crude is heavy like tar and is released at these extreme depths it might tend to lay on the bottom in a near rock like state not interacting with the enviroment.
I agree (we wouldn't sell anything we wouldn't eat ourselves when I held a commercial fishing license), and as far as I am concerned, the desire of seafood vendors and fishermen to avoid the consumption of or liability for a tainted product and the personal or market damage that would bring is quite likely to be enough to ensure the safety of the seafood.
Independent tests would not be conducted by either government nor oil companies, but by those with a vested interest in a safe product, or consumers.
It is just that those tests have not seen much--if any--coverage in the media, only the 'official' ones get press.
Come back to me in three years and apologize, kids.
It will take that long to admit what an abysmal failure Obama’s so-called “response” to this event really was.
You’ll see. The science is on MY side.
Good point. The PEMEX Ixtoc spill in 1978 was larger than the BP spill, and lasted for nine months(!) before Red Adair stopped it.
PEMEX oil washed up all over the Gulf coast - but PEMEX claimed sovereign immunity and didn’t pay a dime of compensation.
Trust us, nobody on this site thinks Obama did a good job with the BP spill. He made a difficult situation far worse.
The oil was a temporary problem: the long-lasting toxic effects are coming from the megabarrels of crude socialism that Obama unleashed on the Gulf.
You don't say.
EXXON VALDEZ REDUX!
It ain't "science". It's enviro-panic science.
If the unaccounted for volume of the BP leak was laid on the Gulf sea-bed at a layer one molecule thick, it would cover...~1500 sq. miles.
P.S. The Gulf of Mexico has a total area of ~615,000 sq. miles.
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