[Travis T. OJustice]

Ah, finally, someone posts with intelligence!

Thank you.

[SuziQ]

I was thinking about this over the weekend, especially when I read about the absence of long term environmental effects from the PEMEX spill of 1979.

The media's coverage of this reminds me of their coverage of the great Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009. These types of situations are great for the media, because they can hyperventilate for weeks on end. But as with the Flu coverage, there is very little SCIENCE in the discussion of the oil and its effects, and an overabundance of speculation.