Posted on 12/06/2010 3:55:43 PM PST by chessplayer
According to http://www.gulfmex.org/facts.htm, The total area of the Gulf is about 600,000 square miles.
Do the math.
Hello, the oil is 5000 ft down on the bottom.
Earth to environmental wackos: nobody fishes down there or scuba dives, or water skis.
Commercial and residential activities happen way above the bottom.
It depends on who and what party is in office at the time.
A bunch of very cold water with very little oxygen...and little else.
Unless she's a Women's Studies teacher, Prof. Joye should know this.
Oil sinks?
How much sea life is “normal” at 5000 feet, particularly in that part of the Gulf?
Further, how much research was done PRIOR to the spill that can be used as a baseline to compare the current status?
OR is this just another pile of scare tactics aimed at shutting down the US oil industry? We are suppose to act with responsibility for our world, but on the other hand, far too often, “some” would prefer to react without having the facts or evidence necessary to make good decisions.
Pretty bleak, I imagine.
However, ABC kept flashing videos of a beautiful coral reef with gorgeous tropical fish in very bright ambient light as a comparison.
Diatoms and dezmids have been piling up their skeletons down there for billions of years. Under pressure they form limestone deposit layers as they build.
Crap! This is just a liberal Obama supporter giving him cover for the NEW drilling moratorium he imposed last week. I bet most scientists and oceanographer would say the BP spill had little impact on the Gulf.
Slime.
Instead they found oily slime.
bfd
University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye
University Professor = Idiot that couldn’t get a real job.
Things are really bleak at 5000 feet, where not a bit of light ever shines. There appears to be little life, where there is otherwise...little life. Yep. It's a tragedy of massive proportions. I'm for sure canceling my deep sea vacation this year, and there's no way I'm going to eat any cuttlefish for a while.
There is not much life at 5000 feet.
Natural bacteria break the oil down.
And your point is?
Varients of these little fellas are what they are growing to commercially harvest their oil.
In a hundred years any oil down there will have been eaten by bugs or broken down into simpler carbon chains, and will sit capped quite neatly under a few feet of dead diatoms.
The bottom of any ocean is largely dead. The Gulf of Mexico is notable in that it’s bottom leaks oil like a seive.
No problem until it’s a problem
This was last Friday.
No problem until it’s a problem
This was last Friday.
But, but, but,,,the Obama junta and a lot of conservatives assure us that things are better than ever!
Well aren’t they or are you saying they are getting worse?
Oil naturally percolates up through the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico, just as it does off the coast of California.
The heavy ends from the recent oil spill will settle on the ocean floor to be slowly broken down by natural processes.
In a very few years it will be covered over with silt and you won’t know it ever happened.
Well.. any responses?
Or are you trolling?
Some of your previous coments lead me to believe you might be.
Its already a dead zone due to plume of fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi R.
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