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Gulf Methane Levels 1 Million Times Above Normal Are Depleting Oxygen And Creating Marine Dead Zones
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gulf-methane-levels-1-million-times-above-normal-are-depleting-oxygen-and-creating-life-dead ^ | June 24, 2010 | Zero Hedge

Posted on 06/25/2010 5:30:48 AM PDT by Amityschild

Reuters is so not getting the administration's latest round of taxpayer bail out funding when mainstream media comes knocking on Obama's door looking for handouts. The media company has shockingly decided to release some of the truth about the biosystematic genocide currently happening in the Gulf: "As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone", U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.

Much more at link...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bamasfault; bp; methane; obamasfault; oil; oilspill
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1 posted on 06/25/2010 5:30:53 AM PDT by Amityschild
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To: Amityschild

If they hit a big methane pocket, it may not be BPs (ok TransOcean but their pockets aren’t as deep) after all, just a fluke accident


2 posted on 06/25/2010 5:32:21 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Amityschild

I am buying a large wall mounted map of the Gulf of Mexico and I am placing a label over that name.

The Obama Dead Sea.


3 posted on 06/25/2010 5:34:44 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: Amityschild
biosystematic genocide

Not to mention carbonic crucifixion.

4 posted on 06/25/2010 5:38:47 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: Eye of Unk

http://www.portpublishing.com/images/computer/gulf%20of%20mexico%20seafloor%20medium.jpg

5 posted on 06/25/2010 5:41:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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To: Amityschild

I wish I could post that BS meter.

By WHAT physical or biological mechanism will the presence of methane gas cause the DEPLETION of oxygen?

I must have missed that part of gas laws.

And to say that there is SIX ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more methane in the water is preposterous if we are talking about methane as a solute ( ie dissolved methane ). IIRC Methane is naturally already about 4 PPM, so a million times more methane would be 4 parts methane to one part water. This is crap. Pure crap.

And how was this measured, really?

Pure crap.


6 posted on 06/25/2010 5:44:20 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Amityschild

And the huge floating rafts of dead marine life are where?


7 posted on 06/25/2010 5:45:50 AM PDT by Adder (Note to self: 11-2-10 Take out the Trash!!!)
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To: Eye of Unk
The Obama Dead Sea.

Sounds perfect and appropriate. Maybe even "the obama dead gulf" or is that golf?

8 posted on 06/25/2010 5:47:39 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Amityschild

Thanks for posting. Interesting comments at the link.

Hey Con-gre$$? Where is that 20B BP document the Bamster’s tyrannical branch agreed to? Check$ & Balance$?

Too big to fail? Anyone? McFly?


9 posted on 06/25/2010 5:52:52 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Blueflag
"By WHAT physical or biological mechanism will the presence of methane gas cause the DEPLETION of oxygen?

I must have missed that part of gas laws."

It appears you also missed that part of the column:
Methane occurs naturally in sea water, but high concentrations can encourage the growth of microbes that gobble up oxygen needed by marine life.

Original Reuters link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L6IA20100622
10 posted on 06/25/2010 6:00:12 AM PDT by samson1097
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To: Nachum; sonofstrangelove; Godzilla; Ernest_at_the_Beach

*ping*


11 posted on 06/25/2010 6:09:51 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: Amityschild

Yesterday is was one hundred thousnd times, today it is a million times. Ya just can’t believe anything ya read any more.


12 posted on 06/25/2010 6:10:38 AM PDT by chainsaw ( 'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal)
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To: Amityschild
CROSSPOSTING:

Methane and Martial Law in the Gulf of Mexico ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2541329/posts

13 posted on 06/25/2010 6:10:46 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: samson1097

I read the article.

I am also educated ( a long time ago ) as a marine biologist.

One part of the article speaks of 100,000 times higher concentrations, another 1 million times higher than background. Those are ABSURDLY high concentrations of dissolved methane in cold, deep seawater. I find them HARD to believe.

Also, methane is NOT a toxin.

And as far as “ can encourage the growth of microbes that gobble up oxygen needed by marine life” goes, I’d like this ‘scientist’ to name the anaerobacters or facultative anaerobes that metabolize methane and “gobble up” oxygen.

Methane is hardly the threat to the ecosystem.

All the CRAP in the crude oil fraction - the aromatic hydrocarbons ( you remember those from organic chemistry in HS? ) — and the various sulfur bearing compounds and so on — all the biologically active compounds in the fraction — THOSE are the risk to life — NOT methane.


14 posted on 06/25/2010 6:13:29 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Blueflag
I wish I could post that BS meter. By WHAT physical or biological mechanism will the presence of methane gas cause the DEPLETION of oxygen? I must have missed that part of gas laws. And to say that there is SIX ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more methane in the water is preposterous if we are talking about methane as a solute ( ie dissolved methane ). IIRC Methane is naturally already about 4 PPM, so a million times more methane would be 4 parts methane to one part water. This is crap. Pure crap. And how was this measured, really? Pure crap.

Also, why wouldn't the methane rise to the surface nearly immediately? Methane doesn't remain in suspension.

15 posted on 06/25/2010 6:16:56 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: Blueflag

It would be spot on to suspect that much of this “sky is falling” BS about this crude oil and methane gusher has little basis in fact.

From a logical view, all this in nothing more than propaganda by the lib/dems to scare the sheeple into letting the lib/dems keep the power to destroy America from every angle possible.


16 posted on 06/25/2010 6:59:48 AM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: Blueflag

I think the reporter is confusing two different things: methane and biological oxygen demand. Bacteria feed on the oil, and create a high BOD. The presence of fertilizer in the Mississippi river has caused a very well know ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf for years, for similar reasons. I also read that Ixtoc caused a high BOD. The Gulf recovered from Ixtoc, and no doubt will recover from this, but it may take a while.


17 posted on 06/25/2010 7:05:20 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: mnehring
USGS investigations indicate that gas hydrates may cause landslides on the continental slope.

Seafloor slopes of 5 degrees and less should be stable on the Atlantic continental margin, yet many landslide scars are present. The depth of the top of these scars is near the top of the hydrate zone, and seismic profiles indicate less hydrate in the sediment beneath slide scars.

Evidence available suggests a link between hydrate instability and occurrence of landslides on the continental margin. A likely mechanism for initiation of landsliding involves a breakdown of hydrates at the base of the hydrate layer.

The effect would be a change from a semi-cemented zone to one that is gas-charged and has little strength, thus facilitating sliding. The cause of the breakdown might be a reduction in pressure on the hydrates due to a sea-level drop, such as occurred during glacial periods when ocean water became isolated on land in great ice sheets.

18 posted on 06/25/2010 7:05:23 AM PDT by seeker41 (CULPRIT CHINESE COMPANY INFO.)
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To: Blueflag

BS meter indeed! The first hurricane in the Gulf might, might, very well dissipate a large portion of the spill and put a major damper on the MSM’s glee in reporting the evils of Big Oil.


19 posted on 06/25/2010 7:07:23 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Red Badger

http://www.portpublishing.com/Computer%20Based/GULFO%20retail%20order.html


20 posted on 06/25/2010 7:11:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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