After the first Iraq war, when Saddam pulled his troops out of Kuwait, one of their last acts before leaving was to set the Kuwaiti oil wells on fire. The wells burned for months while specialists put the fires out one by one.
Carl Sagan embarrassed himself by proclaiming that computer models predicted a “nuclear winter” all around the earth because of the smoke from the oil wells. Supposedly, the sunlight would be blocked and temperatures would plummet, and we were all doomed.
The Carl Sagans of today are called climatologists, and they are still making scary projections from computer models. And they are just as wrong.
But I guess the environmentalists who projected disaster in the aftermath of the BP oil spill are more akin to the enviornmentalists who predicted that the Exxon Valdez spill would cause the ruin of the southern Alaska coastline for many years. Within a couple of years, there was hardly any evidence of the spill anywhere.
The resiliency and adaptability of life on planet earth does not fit in the environmentalists’ model. They keep hoping for the apocalyptic moment when an environmental disaster will truly change the planet, thereby giving them a platform for gaining power and controlling everyone’s lives.
Well you can say what you want ,BUT WHAT ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING huh? Huh ,What about that?
I did see a report based on deep dives to the ocean floor in the spill area which described the floor as covered in oil and all local sea life wiped out. It would be unrealistic to suppose the spill caused no damage at all.
To be honest, I believe that there has to be some damage from that spill. The *normal* flow of the Loop Current comes to mind....
"Aeiiiiiiiii!!!!We're all going to die, we're all going to die, we're all going to die, the Gulf is filling up with oil and soon there'll be no fish or water or people and... we're all going to....what...what did you say?...the situation is not as dire as previously broadcast....wha..what...the situation appears to have been dramatically exaggerated and the problem has mostly been solved by itself? ....Really?...Oh well, there's always global warming...Aeiiiiiiii!!!! we're all going to die!!!!!"