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From: Polarhound on 29 Jul 2010 23:24
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2007202,00.html

President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental
disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else.
Green groups are sounding alarms about the "catastrophe along the Gulf
Coast," while CBS, Fox and MSNBC are all slapping "Disaster in the Gulf"
chyrons on their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward,
after some early happy talk, admitted that the spill was an
"environmental catastrophe." The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush
Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill � he calls it "the
leak" � is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the
avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype.

Well, Limbaugh has a point. The Deepwater Horizon explosion was an awful
tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's
the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious
economic and psychological damage on coastal communities that depend on
tourism, fishing and drilling. But so far � while it's important to
acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for
an underwater event that took place just three months ago � it does not
seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. "The impacts have
been much, much less than everyone feared," says geochemist Jacqueline
Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments
in Louisiana. (See pictures of the Gulf oil spill.)

Yes, the spill killed birds � but so far, less than 1% of the number
killed by the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska 21 years ago. Yes, we've
heard horror stories about oiled dolphins � but so far,
wildlife-response teams have collected only three visibly oiled
carcasses of mammals. Yes, the spill prompted harsh restrictions on
fishing and shrimping, but so far, the region's fish and shrimp have
tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually being lifted. And yes,
scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the destruction of
Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes � a real slow-motion
ecological calamity � but so far, assessment teams have found only about
350 acres of oiled marshes, when Louisiana was already losing about
15,000 acres of wetlands every year.
From: Polarhound on 30 Jul 2010 06:18
What a surprise... Ray can't even get through one potential debunking of
one of the Left's favorite rags without resulting to obscenities and
name calling.
From: Henry on 30 Jul 2010 08:07
Polarhound wrote:
> http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2007202,00.html
>
> President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental
> disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else.
> Green groups are sounding alarms about the "catastrophe along the Gulf
> Coast," while CBS, Fox and MSNBC are all slapping "Disaster in the Gulf"
> chyrons on their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward,
> after some early happy talk, admitted that the spill was an
> "environmental catastrophe." The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush
> Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill � he calls it "the
> leak" � is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the
> avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype.

> Well, Limbaugh has a point.

Point being, that he and most of his followers are a joke...




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From: BG on 30 Jul 2010 12:34
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:24:26 -0400, Polarhound
<polarhound(a)comcast.net> wrote:

>http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2007202,00.html
>
>President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental
>disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else.

It is the worst. Tons of oil under the surface of the Gulf.

The dispersant only hides the oil under the waters surface.

From: ZZH770 on 30 Jul 2010 12:37
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:34:45 -0400, BG(a)yahoo.com wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:24:26 -0400, Polarhound
><polarhound(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2007202,00.html
>>
>>President Obama has called the BP oil spill "the worst environmental
>>disaster America has ever faced," and so has just about everyone else.
>
>It is the worst. Tons of oil under the surface of the Gulf.
>
>The dispersant only hides the oil under the waters surface.
Also the "top kill" procudure fractured the floor of the gulf of
mexico.


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