Posted on 01/27/2016 5:11:29 PM PST by Libloather
The is the first time when a study has shown a link between sea floor and the microbial processes in the upper ocean and provided a deep insight into how natural gas is interacting with microbes. While that amount is still a lot of oil, it is spread out in time over an entire year, so is much less devastating to marine life than oil from a huge spill.
Scientists will continue to research the interactions between marine life and oil, and will look deeper into which types of phytoplankton benefit the most from this situation.
"This is the beginning of evidence that some microbes in the Gulf may be preconditioned to survive with oil, at least at lower concentrations", study co-author Ajit Subramaniam, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in a press release.
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Nature. How about that.
There are some scientists that think we are “carbon starved” compared to the era of the dinosaurs.
D’oh
Wait..I though the Gulf Coast was devastated for centuries.
You mean it isn’t?
How many thousands of oil and fuel spills were there during WWII shops sunk?
I have many hours of first hand observation flying low level over the Gulf of Mexico ... There are Oil Slicks everywhere, they are Natural, Hundreds (probably Thousands) of years ago the Native population used the tar balls that washed up on the Beach to seal their clay pots, start fires, make torches etc etc etc
Hundreds or Thousands of years ago the fishing was probably GREAT and the Climate was NORMAL (pls don’t tell ALGORE)
Certainly are oxygen starved.
Take that! Greenies!
Good point.
After the BP/Obama deep-water offshore drilling disaster, the microbes cleaned things up. This kind of thing has probably happened many times over. Yet our press never takes note. So, the next time there is an oil spill it will be up to us to remember that, if we can only buy time, as Bobby Jindhal did, the problem will go away.
My tuna fish gets packed in oil. HOW ABOUT THAT !
oil is a natural product.
you would think the greenies would love an all natural product!
Wonder if BP can get their money back ... 😃
How many thousands of oil and fuel spills were there during WWII shops sunk?
A few million gallons in the Pacific alone.
Our son worked up in AK for a few years after the Exon Valdiez spill. He went down where the spill occurred and said that where those greenies had “cleaned up” it was like a desert, but where they hadn’t nature had pretty much gotten things back to normal.
Seems to back this up.
Interesting. The “detergents” probably killed everything.
Oil is a natural substance? Who knew?
Detergents....hot water...
Oil is food for an entire chain of life, albeit mostly microbial. Where oil is mainly a problem is where its physical sticky attributes come into play, especially contact with marine birds and mammals and critters that can’t get away from the dense concentrations. Once that breaks up, there’s a wealth of nutrients for the bottom of the food supply.
Oh, didn't you hear?
EVERYTHINGGG was going to be DESTROYED!!! Foreverrrrr!
Some people just don't understand dynamic systems.
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