All anybody had to do was research the effects of Ixtoc 1, the Mexican well that blew out in 1979.
Within five years, all the effects were gone, according to scientists.
Much of that was attributed to warm water in the Gulf.
Apparently, with the Obama administration, it’s never too early for panic in the streets.
Never waste a good crisis. The BP shakedown is still only just getting started; but Obummer and his cronies will rue the day they attempted to shaft “British” Petroleum. I will be interested to see just how much they contribute to the clowns coffers in future.
Given that natural and human caused oil leaks into the Gulf every year in the same amount as leaked form this well, should we expect the media frenzy, the continuous coverage of eco-catastrophy doom & gloom, will continue?
Of course not.
I wonder if the Obamanation will give back the $20 billion it extorted from BP? Of course not. We’ll likely see it doled out to cronies and special interest groups in much the same manner as Congress’s “stimulus” program. And nobody in the main stream media will see anything wrong with it.
since there is oil leaking from below the gulf all the time , there is a 100% chance that there are bacteria that have evolved to eating the stuff. the spill is self cleaning.
it is interesting to note, however,that the spill has gone from the worst spill in the united states to the worst environmental disaster ever in the world in just a few days. somehow surpassing the Ixtoc spill , the fires in Kuwait , and the K-T contact and even the Permian die off.
What was the water cut of the fluid spewing from the well? Could be most of the oil that “disappeared” never was oil in the first place. Rather it could have been reservoir water.
“Within five years, all the effects were gone, according to scientists.”
Wrong !!! You need to do some actual research instead of parroting what you want to believe.
Some of the mangrove forest and wetlands never fully recovered, and the oyster fishery is gone.
Ixtoc I’s main lesson for those responding to the current spill is that sandy beaches and rocky shores can recover relatively quickly, but that more productive ecosystems such as mangrove swamps or salt marshes — the closest analogue to mangroves in the northern Gulf — retain oil indefinitely. They may take decades to regain their health. Ixtoc I’s environmental legacy
Sorry John Galt I do not trust Nature.com as they have been a strong supporter of AGW from day 1 and still are. Don’t read their stuff anymore.
Fallacious ad hominem argument. The facts speak for themselves, the vehicle is irrelevant.
You’re only demonstrating your ignorance when all you can come up with is ‘shoot the messenger’ replies.
You’ve tecitly agreed with the long lasting environmental impact by your inability to address the subject rather than the messenger.
I suppose that sort of ‘argument’ works with yer drinking buddies, but not in the world of science.
Your disingenuous use of ‘sorry’ sums it up well.
Fallacious ad hominem argument. The facts speak for themselves, the vehicle is irrelevant.
You’re only demonstrating your ignorance when all you can come up with is ‘shoot the messenger’ replies.
You’ve tacitly agreed with the long lasting environmental impact by your inability to address the subject rather than the messenger.
I suppose that sort of ‘argument’ works with yer drinking buddies, but not in the world of science.
Your disingenuous use of ‘sorry’ sums up your ‘logic’ rather well.
John Galt
The unsupported claims of unqualified enviro-activist propaganda “NGO” is irrelevant. These fools have been desperately thrashing through the Gulf salt marshes futily seeking oil or damage from oil…..
Closer inspection of the authors of your link will reveal their qualifications are on a par with the 2500 activists labeled by the IPCC as “scientists”.
Cal2 at 2:15pm….
You are exactly right.
There is also an increase in the microbial density where there is more food… in this case petroleum.
Been working on bio-digesting systems for 7 years now and so far there are very few things that you might find in water that don’t serve as food for some tiny creatures. Some times the process work fast … some times it gets stalled. Like rust however … it NEVER stops.
Try it yourself! Get a rain barrel, put a screened drain pipe in the bottom, put in about 6inches of pea gravel and top it off with a foot or two of sand. Feed in water from any natural (untreated) source you care to, (keep it filled above the sand) and drain off a gallon or so every day.
You will see that as time goes by the top surface gets a redish brown skim on it … that’s digested contaminants. The product of a bio-culture that is supported in the sand medium and fed by the crap in the water.
If you can get samples from oil contaminated waters you can experiment to see how long it takes to clean out petroleum.
I set up a system on an aquifer that was contaminated with benzene from an old gas station.
It worked…. dropping counts from 50ppm to nill after seasoning (building the bio-mass) for 20 days.
This is exactly what happens in narural environments.
The point is .. inspite of the pompous lecturing jg … that the media and those vested in promoting the hysteria over the Deep Water incident are NOT making any effort to present perspective on the matter. Instead they have been amplifying the BS in very one sided and self serving manner. Their facts are selctively accumulated and reported and the analysis they offer complete BS.
The MSM and those who wilfully swallow what they spew are idiots.
All anybody had to do was research the effects of Ixtoc 1, the Mexican well that blew out in 1979.
Within five years, all the effects were gone, according to scientists.
Much of that was attributed to warm water in the Gulf.
Apparently, with the Obama administration, it’s never too early for panic in the streets.
Never waste a good crisis. The BP shakedown is still only just getting started; but Obummer and his cronies will rue the day they attempted to shaft “British” Petroleum. I will be interested to see just how much they contribute to the clowns coffers in future.
Given that natural and human caused oil leaks into the Gulf every year in the same amount as leaked form this well, should we expect the media frenzy, the continuous coverage of eco-catastrophy doom & gloom, will continue?
Of course not.
I wonder if the Obamanation will give back the $20 billion it extorted from BP? Of course not. We’ll likely see it doled out to cronies and special interest groups in much the same manner as Congress’s “stimulus” program. And nobody in the main stream media will see anything wrong with it.
since there is oil leaking from below the gulf all the time , there is a 100% chance that there are bacteria that have evolved to eating the stuff. the spill is self cleaning.
it is interesting to note, however,that the spill has gone from the worst spill in the united states to the worst environmental disaster ever in the world in just a few days. somehow surpassing the Ixtoc spill , the fires in Kuwait , and the K-T contact and even the Permian die off.
What was the water cut of the fluid spewing from the well? Could be most of the oil that “disappeared” never was oil in the first place. Rather it could have been reservoir water.
“Within five years, all the effects were gone, according to scientists.”
Wrong !!! You need to do some actual research instead of parroting what you want to believe.
Some of the mangrove forest and wetlands never fully recovered, and the oyster fishery is gone.
Ixtoc I’s main lesson for those responding to the current spill is that sandy beaches and rocky shores can recover relatively quickly, but that more productive ecosystems such as mangrove swamps or salt marshes — the closest analogue to mangroves in the northern Gulf — retain oil indefinitely. They may take decades to regain their health.
Ixtoc I’s environmental legacy
Sorry John Galt I do not trust Nature.com as they have been a strong supporter of AGW from day 1 and still are. Don’t read their stuff anymore.
Fallacious ad hominem argument. The facts speak for themselves, the vehicle is irrelevant.
You’re only demonstrating your ignorance when all you can come up with is ‘shoot the messenger’ replies.
You’ve tecitly agreed with the long lasting environmental impact by your inability to address the subject rather than the messenger.
I suppose that sort of ‘argument’ works with yer drinking buddies, but not in the world of science.
Your disingenuous use of ‘sorry’ sums it up well.
Fallacious ad hominem argument. The facts speak for themselves, the vehicle is irrelevant.
You’re only demonstrating your ignorance when all you can come up with is ‘shoot the messenger’ replies.
You’ve tacitly agreed with the long lasting environmental impact by your inability to address the subject rather than the messenger.
I suppose that sort of ‘argument’ works with yer drinking buddies, but not in the world of science.
Your disingenuous use of ‘sorry’ sums up your ‘logic’ rather well.
John Galt
The unsupported claims of unqualified enviro-activist propaganda “NGO” is irrelevant. These fools have been desperately thrashing through the Gulf salt marshes futily seeking oil or damage from oil…..
Closer inspection of the authors of your link will reveal their qualifications are on a par with the 2500 activists labeled by the IPCC as “scientists”.
Cal2 at 2:15pm….
You are exactly right.
There is also an increase in the microbial density where there is more food… in this case petroleum.
Been working on bio-digesting systems for 7 years now and so far there are very few things that you might find in water that don’t serve as food for some tiny creatures. Some times the process work fast … some times it gets stalled. Like rust however … it NEVER stops.
Try it yourself! Get a rain barrel, put a screened drain pipe in the bottom, put in about 6inches of pea gravel and top it off with a foot or two of sand. Feed in water from any natural (untreated) source you care to, (keep it filled above the sand) and drain off a gallon or so every day.
You will see that as time goes by the top surface gets a redish brown skim on it … that’s digested contaminants. The product of a bio-culture that is supported in the sand medium and fed by the crap in the water.
If you can get samples from oil contaminated waters you can experiment to see how long it takes to clean out petroleum.
I set up a system on an aquifer that was contaminated with benzene from an old gas station.
It worked…. dropping counts from 50ppm to nill after seasoning (building the bio-mass) for 20 days.
This is exactly what happens in narural environments.
The point is .. inspite of the pompous lecturing jg … that the media and those vested in promoting the hysteria over the Deep Water incident are NOT making any effort to present perspective on the matter. Instead they have been amplifying the BS in very one sided and self serving manner. Their facts are selctively accumulated and reported and the analysis they offer complete BS.
The MSM and those who wilfully swallow what they spew are idiots.