The Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

[RWebb]

Deepwater Horizon: After the oil : Nature News

[Joe Ricard]

Our beaches have NEVER been cleaner. Come on down to Biloxi for a vacation, It seems to be the new hot spot for beach goers.

[strupgolf]

And the earth and the seas will live on forever, just like they have for millions and millions of years before us and after us. Man cannot change the earth, but the earth will forever change the man.

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

And the earth and the seas will live on forever, just like they have for millions and millions of years before us and after us. Man cannot change the earth, but the earth will forever change the man.

I bet if we built enough nukes and did a nice blanket explosion over the whole darn thing, and rigged them up as dirty bombs, there'd be quite a change.

[Pazuzu]

Published in SEPTEMBER??!!??

Embarrassing.

[sammyg2]

That's only about 34 weeks ago ...............................

[nynor]

nature has been dealing with oil spills for millenia.

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by Joe Ricard

Our beaches have NEVER been cleaner. Come on down to Biloxi for a vacation, It seems to be the new hot spot for beach goers.

brown sand, brown water? ewwww.. pass...

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Published in SEPTEMBER??!!??

Embarrassing.

I didn't know science had a shelf life. I hit the article on a lit. review and thought it'd be interesting.

Got a newer report? newer study results?

[nynor]

Aftermath of the Gulf spill: Oil’s well that ends well | NJ.com

"By August I couldn’t find a trace of oil on beaches all the way to Alabama. How did my fellow members of the fourth estate react to that reality? They dropped the story like a hot tar ball. "

comments by an expert (rwebb loves experts):

"One guy who got it right in the beginning was Roger Sassen, a professor emeritus at Texas A&M. At the height of the hype, Sassen told the New York Times, "The image of this spill being a complete disaster is not true." The reason, he said, is that the Gulf is "preadapted to crude oil.""

"Sassen’s expertise is in organic geochemistry."

and a big quote, for your enjoyment:

"Reporters looking for alarmist quotes turned instead to marine biologists, said Sassen. Many of them offered worst-case scenarios. And that led to all those stories about the potential of the Gulf becoming a dead zone for a decade.

In fact, there just wasn’t that much oil spilled compared to the vast volume of the Gulf.

That 200 million-gallon estimate for the spill sounds scary — till you compare it to the 660 quadrillion gallons of water in the Gulf. That’s like putting two spoonfuls of oil in an in-ground swimming pool.

Sassen told me he’s seen photos of some impressive slicks that were caused entirely by natural seepage. He’s also been on submarine rides to the sea floor where he has observed entire ecosystems of shellfish and giant tubeworms.

"I’ve seen regular fish come in there and eat them," he said. "There’s nothing like totally fresh shrimp, even if some of the carbon is derived from seepage.""

like i said, the ocean has been dealing with oil seepage for millenia.

[RWebb]

try reading the article - it's in a scientific journal BTW

[nynor]

Originally Posted by RWebb

try reading the article - it's in a scientific journal BTW

from last september. the ecosystem changes. it also deals with problems.

[RWebb]

in what way?

[cgarr]

Been down here in Long Beach all week on Holiday. Looks good to me, lot of shrimping going on at night too!

[nynor]

Originally Posted by RWebb

in what way?

do ecosystems change? do ecosystems deal with toxins and other events?

[RWebb]

by deal with, do you mean go extinct?


Yes, Craig - the sand beaches are fine, and the seafood is fine (and still being tested). So on your way to Florida, stop off and have some great Louisiana seafood.

[strupgolf]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

I bet if we built enough nukes and did a nice blanket explosion over the whole darn thing, and rigged them up as dirty bombs, there'd be quite a change.

I made no mention of nukes or explosions or dirty bombs, don't know where you're coming from. It has nothing to do with the changing earth.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

... Man cannot change the earth...

his point is that you are wrong about the above

Humans have, and continue to change the Earth - and so have other organisms, including termites and blue-green algae.

They, however, don't realize they are making it either better for them or worse. Humans can.

[strupgolf]

I get your point. I meant to say that man can't change whats happening weather wise, hurricanes, tonado's, floods, drought. That stuff is age old.

[RWebb]

ok

we actually can influence the number and severity of major storms...