Wah, the oil is gone, where is my environmental disaster?

[thundley4]

spanone   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 08:52 AM
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U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk
   
this article even has a nice little chamber of commerce picture with it...



WASHINGTON — The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.

A government report finds that about 26 percent of the oil released from BP’s runaway well is still in the water or onshore in a form that could, in principle, cause new problems. But most is light sheen at the ocean surface or in a dispersed form below the surface, and federal scientists believe that it is breaking down rapidly in both places.

On Tuesday, BP began pumping drilling mud into the well in an attempt to seal it for good. Since the flow of oil was stopped with a cap on July 15, people on the Gulf Coast have been wondering if another shoe was going to drop — a huge underwater glob of oil emerging to damage more shorelines, for instance.

Assuming that the government’s calculations stand scrutiny, that looks increasingly unlikely. “There’s absolutely no evidence that there’s any significant concentration of oil that’s out there that we haven’t accounted for,” said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the lead agency in producing the new report.

She emphasized, however, that the government remained concerned about the ecological damage that has already occurred and the potential for more, and said it would continue monitoring the gulf.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/earth/04oil.h...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8876509

Donnachaidh   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 08:54 AM
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1. dontcha love the early morning manure spreading?
   
Yeah -- the oil went away all on it's own. 
 
spanone   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 08:55 AM
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2. and love the picture....people frolicking and birds enjoying the cool, clear water
   
Edited on Wed Aug-04-10 08:57 AM by spanone
god knows why we got so upset over the darned spill
 
FBaggins (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 09:14 AM
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5. With rigs in the background.
   
n/t
 
blindpig   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 09:03 AM
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3. This has been an illuminating event
   

Could it be any more clear that our government is subject to Capital?
 
spanone   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 09:07 AM
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4. it appears we were all upset over absolutely nothing...nevermind
   
Edited on Wed Aug-04-10 09:13 AM by spanone
we should just drop all regulations on offshore drilling since there are no consequences for millions of gallons in our oceans.... 

i believe we are witnessing one of the greatest p.r. scams in history

I agree with the DUmmies . There were a lot of lies and mistakes that happened during this spill, but I differ with them as to the reasons.  I think the administration was misleading us as to how bad it was, because Obama wanted to use it to push through Cap and Tax.  It's hard to use fear mongering when the boogie-man is invisible.

[JohnnyReb]

You know, years ago they used to spray tar on the sides of new highway construction. They sprayed it over fresh grass seeding on the shoulders, ditches and banks to hold the dirt and grass seeds in place until they came up. The liberals must have gone so fsr as to wussify even the grasses.

Bet money the sea/marsh grasses next year won't hardly show any signs of oil/tar damage.

[BlueStateSaint]

Again, as a former supervisor of mine, when I worked in the lab, said to me:

Dilution is the solution to pollution.  And, God gave His Creation some remarkable ways of healing itself if He allows it to.

This phrase is applicable here:  "Give time time."  (It's a good one when making amends, too.)

[dandi]

Donnachaidh   (1000+ posts)           Wed Aug-04-10 08:54 AM
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1. dontcha love the early morning manure spreading?
   
Yeah -- the oil went away all on it's own. 

Well, DUmbass, it had help from one of the most corrosive materials on earth - seawater.  But, essentially, yes it went away on it's own.  The "environment" took care of it the same way it does when the stuff leaks up from the bottom of the sea all on it's own.

Kind of the same way it does for any other "disaster".

****ing simpleton....

[AllosaursRus]

Greatest analogy I heard was "the amount of oil spilled into the Gulf was like a thimble full in a gallon of milk do to the volume of sea water".

Another thing these morons refuse to realize is, this was not crude! It was closer to #2 diesel and evaporated almost as fast as it was spilled because it's damned hot in the Gulf!

Frikkin idiots!

[dandi]

The poor things. They were really hoping for something bigger since the whole Man-Made Global Warming thing still hasn't caught on with the public. Remember all the breathless proclamations of the entire Gulf Of Mexico being as dead as the Moon and this being an extinction-level event and cracks in the Earth's crust big enough to make an Irwin Allen movie? Michael Moore was licking his powdered-donut-crusted chops in anticipation of his next crockumentary, "Bowling With Tarballs."

Why? *sob* Why can't anything ever work out for the poor DUmmies! The Obamessiah did not decend from Heaven with a shout, their terrorist friends are still being greased on a regular basis, Joan can't marry Sally, rich folks still have their money, the BFEE hasn't been frogmarched to the Netherlands, and dammit, Dick Cheney just won't die!

'Tis a sad existence, being a DUmbass.

[BlueStateSaint]

The poor things. They were really hoping for something bigger since the whole Man-Made Global Warming thing still hasn't caught on with the public. Remember all the breathless proclamations of the entire Gulf Of Mexico being as dead as the Moon and this being an extinction-level event and cracks in the Earth's crust big enough to make an Irwin Allen movie? Michael Moore was licking his powdered-donut-crusted chops in anticipation of his next crockumentary, "Bowling With Tarballs."

Why? *sob* Why can't anything ever work out for the poor DUmmies! The Obamessiah did not decend from Heaven with a shout, their terrorist friends are still being greased on a regular basis, Joan can't marry Sally, rich folks still have their money, the BFEE hasn't been frogmarched to the Netherlands, and dammit, Dick Cheney just won't die!

'Tis a sad existence, being a DUmbass.

 

[AllosaursRus]

The poor things. They were really hoping for something bigger since the whole Man-Made Global Warming thing still hasn't caught on with the public. Remember all the breathless proclamations of the entire Gulf Of Mexico being as dead as the Moon and this being an extinction-level event and cracks in the Earth's crust big enough to make an Irwin Allen movie? Michael Moore was licking his powdered-donut-crusted chops in anticipation of his next crockumentary, "Bowling With Tarballs."

Why? *sob* Why can't anything ever work out for the poor DUmmies! The Obamessiah did not decend from Heaven with a shout, their terrorist friends are still being greased on a regular basis, Joan can't marry Sally, rich folks still have their money, the BFEE hasn't been frogmarched to the Netherlands, and dammit, Dick Cheney just won't die!

'Tis a sad existence, being a DUmbass.

My vote for "Post of the Year" so far! I don't use "smileys" often but........

[Randy]

The poor things. They were really hoping for something bigger since the whole Man-Made Global Warming thing still hasn't caught on with the public. Remember all the breathless proclamations of the entire Gulf Of Mexico being as dead as the Moon and this being an extinction-level event and cracks in the Earth's crust big enough to make an Irwin Allen movie? Michael Moore was licking his powdered-donut-crusted chops in anticipation of his next crockumentary, "Bowling With Tarballs."

Why? *sob* Why can't anything ever work out for the poor DUmmies! The Obamessiah did not decend from Heaven with a shout, their terrorist friends are still being greased on a regular basis, Joan can't marry Sally, rich folks still have their money, the BFEE hasn't been frogmarched to the Netherlands, and dammit, Dick Cheney just won't die!

'Tis a sad existence, being a DUmbass.

That sums it up very well. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Rove, you magnificent bastard!

 

[diesel driver]

The poor things. They were really hoping for something bigger since the whole Man-Made Global Warming thing still hasn't caught on with the public. Remember all the breathless proclamations of the entire Gulf Of Mexico being as dead as the Moon and this being an extinction-level event and cracks in the Earth's crust big enough to make an Irwin Allen movie? Michael Moore was licking his powdered-donut-crusted chops in anticipation of his next crockumentary, "Bowling With Tarballs."

Why? *sob* Why can't anything ever work out for the poor DUmmies! The Obamessiah did not decend from Heaven with a shout, their terrorist friends are still being greased on a regular basis, Joan can't marry Sally, rich folks still have their money, the BFEE hasn't been frogmarched to the Netherlands, and dammit, Dick Cheney just won't die!

'Tis a sad existence, being a DUmbass.

That post was a "dandy", dandi.