Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Sat Feb 19, 8:53 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.

At a science conference in Washington Saturday, marine scientist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia aired early results of her December submarine dives around the BP spill site. She went to places she had visited in the summer and expected the oil and residue from oil-munching microbes would be gone by then. It wasn't.

"There's some sort of a bottleneck we have yet to identify for why this stuff doesn't seem to be degrading," Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference in Washington. Her research and those of her colleagues contrasts with other studies that show a more optimistic outlook about the health of the gulf, saying microbes did great work munching the oil.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers

[fascisthunter]

1. Capitalism, or our Fascist form, is Killing Us All

these people preaching free-market and deregulation are sick in the head.

[Obamanaut]

2. More responses at this earlier thread ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=464970

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5. Thanks -- maybe MODS will combine?

Apologies --

[DirkGently]

3. Funny how massive oil spills actually ARE catastrophic to life, isn't it?

[blindpig]

4. Capitalism is unfit for life. n/t