[colorado tanker]

The original article reporting on the study also said the "oil" "plume" was so finely dispersed you could swim through it and the water would appear clear to you.

They so desperately want to find some crisis to justify shutting down the Gulf oil industry.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sure looks that way to me...some of the Woods Hole Scientists are also part of the “Global Warming is coming” crowd.

[hinckley buzzard]

Right. You can't see it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it or feel it--But it's there! Detectable only by microscopically sensitive instruments, yet it threatens us all.

Maybe the reason the bacteria haven't surged in population is because there is nothing there for them to eat.