Remember when Obama energy advisor Carol Browner assured the public that the oil from the BP spill has miraculously disappeared after criticism of Obama’s opening up the pristine areas of Eastern coast to exploration? Well, the Administration is still at odds with scientists who insist that the damage is devastating.
A leading scientist, Samantha Joye of University of Georgia has released video and slide evidence that the oil is not degrading despite continued assurances from the Obama Administration that the oil has largely dissipated. She insists that the Administration’s magic microbes” have “consumed maybe 10 percent of the total discharge, the rest of it we don’t know . . . there’s a lot of it out there.” Both the Administration and a BP scientist with a grant from BP insist that most of the oil is gone.
Yet, Joye and colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled across 2,600 square miles. They also show pictures of totally dead areas as well as extremely high levels of methane — something they insist is being ignored by the effort to leave a rosy picture of the spill and “miracle” recovery.
Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s oil compensation fund czar, insisted that the Gulf of Mexico would almost fully recover by 2012. The scientists insist that this is simply wrong and a continuing underestimation of the damage caused by the spill.
Source: ABC
Jonathan Turley
BIL, The one thing that the government has done consistently is impose (and allow BP to impose) a media and science black out of the effects of the explosion. The Coast Guard was enforcing the blackout sometimes with BP security people or BP minions in the same boat. Thanks for the article.
Woosty, be careful there, the thought police will get ya’ for sure.
dead baby dolphins washing up on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts at ten times the expected rate.
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I don’t swim in the ocean here anymore…
http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/titinx.asp
the baby dolphins are dying because we basted them in oil after shitting all over them…I’m drawing stick figures of pooping on BP execs….do you think I’ll get arrested?
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If I want to know the condition of the Gulf of Mexico, Kenneth Feinberg’s name would not appear on any list of scientists I would consult. I’m sticking with what I said at the beginning of the disaster: the recovery will take decades. I’m not a marine biologist, but I’ve been diving for 30 years and have watched the gradual decline of the coral reef system off the Florida coasts through normal human activity. Too many people think that if there are no visible tar balls on the beach, all is well.
Alternet is now reporting that the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies is recording dead baby dolphins washing up on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts at ten times the expected rate. They’ve not reached any conclusions about the cause as yet, but I’m pretty confident that they’ll find a direct link to the spill. http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/482480/dead_baby_dolphins_washing_up_along_gulf_coast_at_10_times_normal_rates/#paragraph3
At least when Bush lied about science there was the possibility that he just didn’t understand it. Our current President doesn’t really have that excuse.
Obama has to make a billion dollars to run for president.