Posted on 12/06/2010 3:55:43 PM PST by chessplayer
I think that you mean CLEVER and I agree with you. Isn't it amazing how libs can turn around scientific principals with the snap of their wee little brains?
This article is nonsense. I was just swimming down there & things are fine.
“Why would this get the zot?”
Because it goes against the conservative propaganda(yes our side has that too).
This poster may be trolling:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2636093/posts?page=15#15
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2635914/posts?page=28#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2635291/posts?page=123#123
Gulf of Mexico is notable in that it’s bottom leaks oil like a seive.
From natural causes it may be added and the BP spill was no more than “peeing in the pool” as was pointed out.
These idiots ridng about in some sub could only see a few feet in any direction. How the hell could they claim to have seen the whole bottom, with anything resembling a straight face? algore must have been with them, trying to get a rub-a-dub-dub from Prof. Joye.
Exactly. bttt
November 15, 2010 4:00 A.M.
Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf
The Great Oil Spill Panic of 2010 will go down in history as mass hysteria on par with the Dutch tulip bubble.
[snip]
Continue here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=303#303
Actually I am a Professor of Oceanography who has spent much of his life at sea doing a “real” job.
Having said that, the people here who are talking about the deep area of the Gulf of Mexico are right. It has been known for many decades that there are oil seeps, dead zones etc at the bottom of the Gulf. This makes me wonder if they went out looking for a predetermined result (well ... not really).
BTW, I know a lot of oceanographers, and I have absolutely no idea who this person (Samantha Joye) is. I will say that oceanography at Georgia is not exactly one of their strong points.
Scientists lie. We just had another report of more sealife than a year ago.
Pray for America
Tell me— how does one find “dead sea life” at the bottom of anything?!:)
Well?
Anything else to add to your thread?
Commentary here notes that there isn’t much life a mile down in the Gulf to begin with.
I noted several comments by you that sound trollish.
Any thoughts on this?
Two Chimera, they look dead even when moving.
More oil!
Dr. Samantha Joye is a professor in the department of marine sciences in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert in the cycling of nutrients, metals, and organic materials between the living and non-living components of the ecosystem (a field known as biogeochemistry) in coastal environments; and in ecosystem and geochemical modeling; microbial ecology, metabolism and physiology.
Dr. Joye’s research has been widely published in leading scientific journals, and she is regularly called upon by national and international scientific and policy agencies for expert commentary. Her work has been funded by substantial, multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other funders.
In 2008 she was awarded the university’s Creative Research Medal for her work assessing the impacts of climate change on biological and geological processes, particularly those involving carbon, in coastal ecosystems. One of her research projects on the Georgia coast showed for the first time that even small changes in temperature affect the efficiency of super-sensitive microbes that degrade organic carbon in coastal ocean areas. Another project is determining how the rising sea levels caused by climate change may affect coastal wetlands, particularly salt, brackish, and freshwater tidal marshes. Her current research in the Gulf oil spill zone is documenting the distribution of deepwater plumes of oil, measuring the activities of microbes breaking down the oil, and assessing other variables such as dissolved oxygen concentration and other environmental impacts of the spill.
Dr. Joye earned her Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1993 and joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in 1997, having serving briefly as a research associate at San Francisco State University and an assistant professor of oceanography at Texas A&M. She was also awarded a fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany, where she served as a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, in 2002-03. In 1997 and again in 1999, she served as a research fellow in the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
Source: UGA
www.uga.edu/aboutUGA/joye_pkit/Samantha_Joye_bio.doc
HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
JUNE 9TH, 2010 Testimony Submitted By Dr. Samantha B. Joye
PDF - 13 Pages
http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2010/Energy/9jun/Joye_Testimony.pdf
Dr. Samantha Joye
http://www.gulfbase.org/person/view.php?uid=sjoye
Her Gulf Oil Blog started in May
http://gulfblog.uga.edu/page/3/
“You mean, millions of barrels of oil spilling into waters we fish in is a bad thing?”
According to a lot of people (maybe most) in here, the more oil and chemicals we pour into the waters we fish in is a good thing.
“I noted several comments by you that sound trollish.
Any thoughts on this?”
Yeah, I know. Anyone that does`nt toe the line on absolutely everything is a troll. I see you tolerate differing points of view as much as libs do. As a matter of fact, with your trollish comment, you sound EXACTLY like a lib.
Looks like? Using those strict standards I can be a scientist.
That statement is an embarrassment.
ABC is no better. re: ""It looks like everything's dead,"
Everything owns dead? [I went to school long ago. The rules may have changed since then.]
OH, it CAN respond!
Well, that one comment I noted makes it sound like you AREN’T a FReeper.
“right freepers?” you said.
You like to bash FReepes.
You don’t like being caught out there, do you?
You haven’t mentioned the fact that there is not alot of life a mile down in the oceans.
Goes against your agenda, doesn’t it.
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