Thursday, August 19, 2010
Where is the oil? In enormous undersea plumes
Posted by Kevin Allman @NOLAKevin on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:14 PM
During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction, based largely on information provided by Chalabi and his allies—almost all of which have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate.
At what point are some in the media going to admit they Judy Millered the impact of the oil disaster?
The Washington Post: Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site
Academic scientists are challenging the Obama administration's assertion that most of BP's oil is either gone or rapidly disappearing -- citing, among other evidence, the discovery of an undersea "plume" of oil stretching more than 21 miles from the well site.
The New York Times: Gulf Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Research Says
“I expect the hydrocarbon imprint of the BP discharge will be detectable in the marine environment for the rest of my life,” Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University, told Congress in prepared testimony on Thursday. “The oil is not gone and is not going away anytime soon.”
The Wall Street Journal: Study Says Gulf Oil Spill Caused Manhattan-Size Plume
At the height of the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil escaping from the damaged well was trapped underwater in a drifting plume of hydrocarbons the size of Manhattan and helped turn the Gulf of Mexico into a test-tube of experimental petroleum chemistry, scientists who probed the submerged spill region said Thursday. ...
By confirming the existence of this submerged plume, the new data also challenge government estimates that the vast majority of the 4.9 million barrels of spilled oil is already gone from the Gulf or being rapidly broken down by bacteria, several marine experts said.
Instead, some of that oil may persist deep underwater and in seafloor sediments—at levels thousands of times higher than those caused by the natural oil seeps that dot the Gulf sea floor—where it can elude conventional detection and clean-up efforts, scientists said.
Meanwhile, here's ABC News' front page at this moment. It contains news about Jennifer Aniston, the "Mystery of Beer Goggles Revealed," the new girlfriend of cable star Jesse James, and something about blind waiters serving people in the dark ... but not word one about the reappearing oil, much less the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico:
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