Oil Spill Impact - NY Tines Article

[billfred]

Read this over the weekend. Now it comes from the NYT which is not known to be een the slightest bit conservative - but I thought it was a pretty balanced article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/science/earth/18enviro.html

Have a read.

One really good point it makes is that the Gulf of Mexico cleans up from oil spills a lot better than most places as it is warm and has natural seeps - this creates a lot of natural bacterias that breakdown the oil faster than in someplace like Alaska or the Northeast shores.

 

[miplank]

*chirp*

 

[jnevin]

Eh... All I really got from that is the area is fucked and there's no way to know how fucked or for how long.

 

[mrplunkey]

Read this over the weekend. Now it comes from the NYT which is not known to be een the slightest bit conservative - but I thought it was a pretty balanced article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/science/earth/18enviro.html

Have a read.

One really good point it makes is that the Gulf of Mexico cleans up from oil spills a lot better than most places as it is warm and has natural seeps - this creates a lot of natural bacterias that breakdown the oil faster than in someplace like Alaska or the Northeast shores.

I'll read it later tonight. My first guess would be it's an attempt to put lipstick on the worst oil leak ever happening on the watch of the president who's supposed to heal the Earth and lower the sea levels.

 

[-SD-]

I'll read it later tonight. My first guess would be it's an attempt to put lipstick on the worst oil leak ever happening on the watch of the president who's supposed to heal the Earth and lower the sea levels.

titcr

 

[mrplunkey]

titcr

The mainstream media has covered the story so well that now they've only got a few months to run positive stories before the November elections.

 

[RottenWillow]

Eh... All I really got from that is the area is fucked and there's no way to know how fucked or for how long.

All there is for anyone to get, J. Media has to grossly over-elaborate about everything though.

 

[jnevin]

I mean hell, if crabs in New England are still acting all punchy and can't even dig properly 30+ years after a spill that wasn't that huge, this is going to be a total cluster fuck. Barry will fix it though. He's all good.

 

[billfred]

I mean hell, if crabs in New England are still acting all punchy and can't even dig properly 30+ years after a spill that wasn't that huge, this is going to be a total cluster fuck. Barry will fix it though. He's all good.

Having a fidler crab dig sideways in not exactly the end of the world as we know it. lol

 

[mrplunkey]

Having a fidler crab dig sideways in not exactly the end of the world as we know it. lol

Dude!

It's going to upset the delicate balance of the ecosystem and ultimately lead to the cataclysmic failure of the food chain!

 

[PICK3]

I'll read it later tonight. My first guess would be it's an attempt to put lipstick on the worst oil leak ever happening on the watch of the president who's supposed to heal the Earth and lower the sea levels.

Want to know what I'm going to attempt to put lipstick on?

 

[mrplunkey]

Want to know what I'm going to attempt to put lipstick on?

Putting lipstick on some guy's o-ring doesn't make it any less geigh.

Just sayin'

 

[bakemeacookie]

people like to bitch about stuff like this. esp hippies.

but you know what people WILL REALLY bitch about? March in the streets with pitchforks?

Gas rising double in value. People will advocate every fish to slaughtered with oil soaked clubs before letting gas become unaffordable for them.

c

 

[-SD-]

people like to bitch about stuff like this. esp hippies.

but you know what people WILL REALLY bitch about? March in the streets with pitchforks?

Gas rising double in value. People will advocate every fish to slaughtered with oil soaked clubs before letting gas become unaffordable for them.

c

You better fucking believe it. People vote and protest with their wallets. Dont fuck with my cash motherfuckers!!!1111///

 

[juiceddreadlocks]