You are exactly right. Don’t you realize that you’ve made my point?
Corexita (known by other names) was used in massive amounts in this particular spill, and no other spill. It’s very DESIGN is to sink oil to the sea floor. While a snappy, aesthetic idea, to make things look good to the boaters & swimmers, it is a sentence of doom for seafood. Their eggs lie on the ocean floor. This is why I continue to warn everyone that this will not be felt for two or three years.
Quite honestly, I’m a tad puzzled here.
Are we conservatives going the way of the libs where we dismiss established science so we can hold to our political ideas? We conservatives rightfully reject the nutjob enviroscrewballs. But are we now going to reject long standing scientific fact (not theory), just for a political win?
I knew that global warming was a crock of shit within the first five minutes I heard the theory. To believe it would require every student of science to toss out everthing they ever knew, in order to buy it.
Let’s not give National Review credence on this; they are wrong. They are operating via reflex; “earth friendly = left wing libs”
We’re better than this, folks. It is truly possible to be earth friendly and conservative. Especially when you understand science.
What is wrong here is the current administration. This should be considered a national scandal.
Oil in a normal spill contains heavier fractions that cling to the sea floor, as well as the lighter fractions that rise to the surface. The BP spill was not the first one in history to cover some of the sea floor. They all do that.
If the oil spill (either natural or 'Corexitised') had been large enough to cover the entire Gulf floor in a layer an inch thick then we could reasonably expect some impact on spawning. But one molecule of oil for every ~ 400 sq. miles of sea floor has simply negligible impact.
The dispersants do not sink the oil. The break up the surface tension so the hydrocarbon molecules do not cling to each other as strongly.
Most of the hydrocarbon molecules are lighter than water and float to the surface. Some of those evaporate off.
The dispersants breakdown even faster than the oil.