Posted on 08/01/2011 2:06:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dumba$$. Oil is *part* of the environment.
New hobby for Michelle: A “Lets move” program for obese oil-eating microbes.
They all must admit, although most are reluctant, that oil leaks on the ocean floor are a very common occurrence.
God gave nature a very efficient way of dealing with it.
Volcanoes are much worse.
...."Oil is still detrimental to the environment, "
She calls herself a scientist? She is just another agenda driven idiot. She makes a point of injecting her left-wing bias into what should be a serious research matter. The left is truly evil.
These folks would do well to study the periodic table of the elements.
“mother nature” often works vertically/laterally to get the job done. to wit — substituting S for O when there is not enough O. Thus the smell at low tide. [ organisms respire H2S instead of H2O ]
That fact that these Bozos found the results “unexpected” simply means their theories and understanding of the ecosystem were WRONG going in.
Man up. Study the facts. Move on with better knowledge.
Simple, microbes eat oil and fart water, scientwists mystified.
Perhaps there wasn’t anywhere near as much oil spilled as we were led to believe? Maybe that huge slick that was miles wide and tens of miles long was wafer-thin, not feet thick as we were told?
Nah, the US gov’t and BP (0bama’s [ptui] biggest single donor) would never lie to the public, would they?
Microbe “eating” technology is nothing new. They use it here at old gas station sites as a cleanup tool.
The oil spill did less harm than the unnecessary shutting down of this valuable industry...thanks to OBAMA and his EPA lieutenants.
The government “fined by the barrel....you tell me.
So Mother Nature is not so defenseless after all. Who woulda thunk??
I would think that that would be one of the advantages of deep water drilling, especially with the sour, heavy oil in the Gulf. At that pressure, very little of the oil would reach the surface, and much of what does are volatile distillates that would quickly break-up due to sunlight and air exposure. The oil that is released would certainly overwhelm the biozone for a short time, but so much petroleum pours out of the bottom naturally, the native organisms would have evolved to deal with it long ago.
Looks a lot of energy has been metabolized. This metabolized energy should move up the food chain and I wouldn’t be surprised if the fishing improves.
Oil has been seeping from the Gulf floor forever.
It is an iron clad certainty that some microbes have evolved to benefit from the seepage
Hmmmm! Rush was right about this all along!!
Ping
Thanks!
This is exactly what Rush Limbaugh said would happen back when the accident happened. Of course, he was pilloried for it in the media.
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