Ain't that just the sweetest? Effing liar he is.
Posted on 05/30/2010 7:36:09 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
WASHINGTON — If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn't contained soon — and the latest efforts suggest that's unlikely — then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate the containment and cleanup efforts.
"It's all lose, lose, lose here," said Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska marine scientist who's familiar with both the current Gulf oil spill and the Exxon Valdez disaster two decades ago.
"The failure of the top kill really magnified this disaster exponentially," he said. "I think there's a realistic probability that this enormous amount of oil will keep coming out for a couple months. This disaster just got enormously worse."
As the federal government and BP try yet another strategy to curb the flow of oil from the blown well a mile below the surface of the Gulf — one that could increase the flow of oil by as much as 20 percent — scientists anticipate a range of disastrous effects, only some of which are well understood.
The damage to the shorelines of Gulf states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida is literally only the surface of the problem: The damage to the sea floor could be extensive, and oil could also devastate marine life between the Gulf floor and its surface, as well as in coastal areas far from the leaking wellhead.
Steiner, the Alaska scientist, said that while the shoreline has gotten the most attention, the damage from oil plumes under the Gulf's surface would be extensive.
"A lot of this oil has yet to surface, and so it's formed these huge sub-surface plumes," he said
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/30/1656217_p2/gulf-oil-spill-this-disaster-just.html#ixzz0pTFMrrbS
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They will just intensify their blame Bush defense.
Didn’t Obama say he had this thing in control?
Damn!
“I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down,” Obama declared in a lengthy news conference at the White House on Thursday.
Nuke it shut.
Collapse the well with pressure wave from a low yield tactical nuke.
Don’t tell the Kenyan! It’ll throw off his golf game.
The live cam was showing a lot of activity down there this evening. Putting down mud flats or something like that. Robots very busy.
Seems to me you might well blow it open bigger than it is now, not to mention the inherent problems with nuking the ocean.
The best site I can recommend you all monitor to get the most up to date and expert opinions on this is:
This is not an MSM outlet, but a place where people who work in the field are trying to explain an extremely complex subject. I’ve learned more about deep water drilling in the past couple of weeks here than I ever imagined was possible, and most of it came via that website.
It is a least a billion times worse than Exxon Valdez!!
It is a least a billion times worse than Exxon Valdez!!
How did you come up with that figure?
Our faltering economy just took right cross. It’s not as big a hit as 911 was, but it’s no love tap either.
They need to put Gov. Bobby Jindal in charge. They need a LEADER.
The Hayride is also a site that accumulates info on the blowout. It is a Louisiana based website that centers on state events. It doesn’t have the outside participation that the OILDRUM has but still a place to look for local info.
http://thehayride.com/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-the-latest/
Our faltering economy just took right cross. It’s not as big a hit as 911 was, but it’s no love tap either
We’re on thin ice with everything around the world taken into consideration.
Yeah, Zero couldn’t wait to prance to the microphone and say he was in charge when it appeared Top Kill was going to work. Now that it hasn’t, he’ll be back to saying how they were staying out of the way and anyway, it’s Bush’s fault anyway so no one should blame him.
“We the People” will demand we spend whatever...
The last tipping point surpassed...Pretty damned simple to me................
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