They're also saying it could be worse on the East Coast of Florida (where I am) then on the West. The whole thing is just awful. Huffington Post had pictures of the dead fish and sea turtles washing up in LA. :(
Yeah, I was kinda wtf at him saying that this can break apart naturally.
This is the BIGGEST North American underwater oil find ever. It was dug at the deepest depth ever. It is HUGE and it is not pumping out oil...this is like an undersea volcano spewing toxic magma and smoke. This oil is HOT from the bed of the sea and the water is COLD (38 F)...
We have no idea how much has spread out because it's coming from three different sources. Not to mention it is popping up all over the place and spreading sheet thing. It's not very thick at all in some spots. But that doesn't make this any more less of a catastrophe.
Toxic chemicals are being used to break up the oil and to drill the new hole and we have no idea what impact THEY will have on the environment not to mention the Oil.
It is better to panic and prepare for the absolute worst than it is to get caught with your pants down.
With the temperature differential, it may simply be killing deep water species from temperature shock.
Also, if its that hot and enough of it heats up sublayers I'm curious if it'll cause a mass water turnover. Oceans are usually too big to heat up that quickly and turnover rapidly, but with that much heat, you might get the water column to invert.
Also, hopefully it's not in an area with methane hydrate crystals (frozen natural gas). Heat those up and you may have those melt and release that as well.
University of Florida professor and oceanographic expert Y. Peter Sheng has predicted Florida's east coast could see the worst affects of the oil spill, according to published reports.
Meteorological models show the oil could be swept up the east coast of Florida if it gets into the "Loop Current."
What we need now is for the Gulf to calm down and quick spreading the oil everywhere. They are seeing 8 to 10 foot waves and they can't send the ships out there to do oil clean up in those conditions accidents will happen.
I just hope we don't get any tropical cyclones. All we need is a fucking hurricane to form and tosss all this shit a 50 miles inland.
There has never been a disaster on this scale in our history. Even Katrina didn't fuck-up but three states...
I know that environmentalists have been worried about a gulf stream disaster in regards to like, say, global warming and glacial runoff and europe, but lol to think it'd come early from oil. Good times, humanity, good times.
University of Florida professor and oceanographic expert Y. Peter Sheng has predicted Florida's east coast could see the worst affects of the oil spill, according to published reports.
Meteorological models show the oil could be swept up the east coast of Florida if it gets into the "Loop Current."
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God this is horrible. That first article - Gene Taylor needs to STFU.
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This is the BIGGEST North American underwater oil find ever. It was dug at the deepest depth ever. It is HUGE and it is not pumping out oil...this is like an undersea volcano spewing toxic magma and smoke. This oil is HOT from the bed of the sea and the water is COLD (38 F)...
We have no idea how much has spread out because it's coming from three different sources. Not to mention it is popping up all over the place and spreading sheet thing. It's not very thick at all in some spots. But that doesn't make this any more less of a catastrophe.
Toxic chemicals are being used to break up the oil and to drill the new hole and we have no idea what impact THEY will have on the environment not to mention the Oil.
It is better to panic and prepare for the absolute worst than it is to get caught with your pants down.
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Also, if its that hot and enough of it heats up sublayers I'm curious if it'll cause a mass water turnover. Oceans are usually too big to heat up that quickly and turnover rapidly, but with that much heat, you might get the water column to invert.
Also, hopefully it's not in an area with methane hydrate crystals (frozen natural gas). Heat those up and you may have those melt and release that as well.
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Good lord can you imagine if this gets all the way to the artic?
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Meteorological models show the oil could be swept up the east coast of Florida if it gets into the "Loop Current."
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=155501&catid=3
I admittedly don't fully understand meteorology but it sounds awful.
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This oil is head to that direction and when it gets sucked into it will go THROUGH the Floriday Keys and UP the Atlantic coast up towards the artic.
So EVERYONE is fucked.
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BP better be paying for most of this shit. Rescuing all that wildlife and clean up isn't going to be cheap for any state.
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What we need now is for the Gulf to calm down and quick spreading the oil everywhere. They are seeing 8 to 10 foot waves and they can't send the ships out there to do oil clean up in those conditions accidents will happen.
I just hope we don't get any tropical cyclones. All we need is a fucking hurricane to form and tosss all this shit a 50 miles inland.
There has never been a disaster on this scale in our history. Even Katrina didn't fuck-up but three states...
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Meteorological models show the oil could be swept up the east coast of Florida if it gets into the "Loop Current."
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=155501&catid=3
I admittedly don't fully understand meteorology but it sounds awful.
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