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Federal study confirms microbes have eaten most of the Gulf Oil Spill
Examiner.com ^ | January 10th, 2011 2:30 pm ET | John Ryden

Posted on 01/10/2011 9:09:44 PM PST by brityank

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To: brityank

Gee, just like I said in the summer of ‘09. Petroleum is fish food. Microbes eat the oil, plankton eat the microbes, fish eat the plankton.


41 posted on 01/10/2011 11:49:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: taxtruth
How about National Geographic?

Gulf Oil Spill a "Dead Zone in the Making"?

After the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill (which was far larger than the Deepwater Horizon spill) in the Gulf of Mexico, the area's infauna were reduced by up to 90 percent, Tunnell said—a potential reason many bird species left the area in the wake of the nine-month-long spill.

However, there may be a bright side: Organisms at the bottom of the food chain reproduce more rapidly than bigger animals, Tunnell pointed out by email. After the Ixtoc spill, infauna returned to pre-spill levels within about a year.


42 posted on 01/10/2011 11:57:56 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: brityank

This is the most misleading headline!

The study didn’t say that at all. This doesn’t address the concerns of folks like Samantha Joye. The whole idea that there’s oil on the sea floor is NOT what this study was about.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704447604576007761183035214.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/14/national/main6864328.shtml

It will be gone eventually, but to claim that the methanogen pathway research is addressing the deep residuals is disingenuous.


43 posted on 01/11/2011 12:05:02 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Saddam Hussein had them drained, simply breached the levies and the marsh healed itself very quickly..

And he also slaughtered most of the Marsh Arabs. Have you seen the photos of the fantastic reed houses, main halls and other structures? Amazing work. I haven't heard if the once viable fishing industry has recovered, well, at least the fish, I don't think the "industry" exists anymore.

44 posted on 01/11/2011 12:07:55 AM PST by brushcop (CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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To: brushcop; Blood of Tyrants
Saddam Hussein had them drained, simply breached the levies and the marsh healed itself very quickly..

And he also slaughtered most of the Marsh Arabs. Have you seen the photos of the fantastic reed houses, main halls and other structures? Amazing work.

Some nice pictures at this link:

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-mourning-marsh-arab-way-life

45 posted on 01/11/2011 12:23:19 AM PST by thecodont
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To: StormEye
now find a microbe that eats oil and defecates gold..
46 posted on 01/11/2011 2:19:32 AM PST by goat granny
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To: April Lexington
So... if I move to Alaska I would eat less and weigh less?

If your body temperature were the same as Prince William Sound, yes.

47 posted on 01/11/2011 2:33:17 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: brityank
Federal study confirms microbes have eaten most of the Gulf Oil Spill

Awwww, why can't we have a study that we the people can trust?

48 posted on 01/11/2011 2:37:51 AM PST by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: brityank; ex-Texan
A 'Federal (Obamatron) study'.... we should take world for word, and dump directly in the ash can.


49 posted on 01/11/2011 3:40:18 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never "free")
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To: brityank
Told 'ya so!

Dispersants and the Piper

50 posted on 01/11/2011 5:59:42 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (You are just jealous because the voices aren't talking to YOU!)
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To: brityank

There are many sources for the info.

Tarballs were common on the beaches long before there was any oil drilling.

Millions of barrels of oil were leaking into the Gulf before anyone drilled, and millions of barrels will be leaking into the Gulf when we stop drilling, or when we disappear from the planet.

Oil leaks into the oceans in lots of places from natural seeps.


51 posted on 01/11/2011 7:42:11 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: thecodont

I haven’t seen those, thank you. I had seen some earlier black and whites taken (I think) in the 30s thru the 50s. My son’s Company Commander had studied in-depth about Iraq and the Marsh Arabs in particular and had opened up this fascinating culture to me during a discussion after one of their combat deployments.

He tried to make sure that his men knew of these things so that their knowledge of Iraq would not be one-dimensional. This paid off greatly durng the second combat deployment when they made a conscentrated effort to reach the people in a more personal way which developed good intelligence and resulted in the arrest/capture/death of major HVTs (high value targets).

They became adept in understanding the individual tribal aspects of the people and understood what motivated them more effectively. That’s the quality of some combat leaders and men we have in our military these days. Great stuff if they weren’t ignored, forgotten and unsupported by this regime.


52 posted on 01/11/2011 7:44:23 AM PST by brushcop (CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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