DUmmie unhappy that an ecological disaster is not happening

[thundley4]

Subdivisions   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jul-29-10 05:41 PM
Original message
The media is systematically reducing the impacts of the Gulf oil spill...
   
They are cleaning up the PR mess and before you know it this oil spill will exist only to those whose lives are directly affected by it.

They won't even mention anything about sub-surface contamination. If it's not visible, it's all gone. Simple as that.

This is a disgusting display of media re-writing history on tonight's Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. This is compeletly outrageious and heart-breaking.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8841695

DCBob   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jul-29-10 05:44 PM
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1. Its not just the media.. its also all the scientists monitoring the situation..
   
are they all just lying or BP shills or what? Please enlighten us.


valerief   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jul-29-10 05:46 PM
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2. We know BP was buying up the scientists. Just how many, I dunno. nt
   
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DCBob   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jul-29-10 05:56 PM
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9. They must have bought up all them..
   
they all seem to be saying the same thing.
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Subdivisions   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jul-29-10 05:48 PM
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3. They are not saying anything about sub-surface oil. The are only referring to
   
what they are able to see on the surface. I'd like to see this info that the scientists are saying, please provide a link.

Meanwhile, http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/38476

So, please enlighten us...which scientists are the shills and which are not?

DCBob   (1000+ posts)           Thu Jul-29-10 05:54 PM
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7. not sure if you have read this or not.. its discusses what is happening under the surface as well..
   
Where is all the oil? Nearly two weeks after BP finally capped the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, the oil slicks that once spread across thousands of miles of the Gulf of Mexico have largely disappeared. Nor has much oil washed up on the sandy beaches and marshes along the Louisiana coast. And the small cleanup army in the Gulf has only managed to skim up a tiny fraction of the millions of gallons of oil spilled in the 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon rig went up in flames.

So where did the oil go? "Some of the oil evaporates," explains Edward Bouwer, professor of environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University. That’s especially true for the more toxic components of oil, which tend to be very volatile, he says. Jeffrey W. Short, a scientist with the environmental group Oceana, told the New York Times that as much as 40 percent of the oil might have evaporated when it reached the surface. High winds from two recent storms may have speeded the evaporation process.

Perhaps the most important cause of the oil’s disappearance, some researchers suspect, is that the oil has been devoured by microbes. The lesson from past spills is that the lion’s share of the cleanup work is done by nature in the form of oil-eating bacteria and fungi. The microbes break down the hydrocarbons in oil to use as fuel to grow and reproduce. A bit of oil in the water is like a feeding frenzy, causing microbial populations to grow exponentially.

Typically, there are enough microbes in the ocean to consume half of any oil spilled in a month or two, says Howarth. Such microbes have been found in every ocean of the world sampled, from the Arctic to Antarctica. But there are reasons to think that the process may occur more quickly in the Gulf than in other oceans.

Microbes grow faster in the warmer water of the Gulf than they do in, say, the cool waters off Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez spill occurred. Moreover, the Gulf is hardly pristine. Even before humans started drilling for oil in the Gulf — and spilling lots of it — oil naturally seeped into the water. As a result, the Gulf evolved a rich collection of petroleum-loving microbes, ready to pounce on any new spill. The microbes are clever and tough, observes Samantha Joye, microbial geochemist at the University of Georgia. Joye has shown that oxygen levels in parts of the Gulf contaminated with oil have dropped. Since microbes need oxygen to eat the petroleum, that’s evidence that the microbes are hard at work.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_excl/ynews_excl_sc3270

flyarm   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jul-29-10 05:52 PM
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6. Scientists and lawyers! BP has gobbled most of them up! And the Universities with
   
Edited on Thu Jul-29-10 05:54 PM by flyarm
environmental PH D's.

Along with the Coast Guard, the FAA, Homeland security , EPA and our local police!
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flyarm   (1000+ posts)             Thu Jul-29-10 05:51 PM
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4. It's been going on since day one! No truths have been told by any media..
   
and only tid bits by Anderson Cooper!

From Gulf resident

I swear, these damn DUmmies wanted a massive environmental disaster.  To be fair, it did seem like that was Obama's hope also.

[BlueStateSaint]

I swear, these damn DUmmies wanted a massive environmental disaster.  To be fair, it did seem like that was Obama's hope also.

Rove, you magnificant bastard!

[miskie]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8841695

I swear, these damn DUmmies wanted a massive environmental disaster.  To be fair, it did seem like that was Obama's hope also.

of course -- they need a massive ecological disaster to push their green agenda, crap & tax and all the other enviro horsepucky team Obama has been toying with.

Showing the world that nature can fix itself fairly quickly nullifies the need for radical change. - between a natural breakdown of the oil, the often quoted line ' dilution is the solution to pollution' is proving to be true.

[PatriotGame]

Rove, you magnificant bastard!

10-4!

Additionally, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of micro-biological hydrocarbon chomping life forms in *ANY* VRWC Chem-Trail^TM formulations.

EOM
OUT!

[jukin]

They hoped that we would fail in Iraq.

They hoped that the economy would fail in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. 2008 and they finally got their wish with  a donk congress able to pass economy killing laws.

But whatever you say DO NOT call them unpatriotic.