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| BP Spill's Gulf Threat May Fade as Farms Pollute, Wetlands Sink |
| 2010-08-15 |
| occasionally the media tells the truth. Visit the Gulf of Mexico today and you’d hardly recognize it as the scene of what President Barack Obama called “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” It’s as if scientists had conducted an insane experiment -- dumping about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the water -- and discovered its effect was in certain ways negligible. Some 21 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, globs of oil can still be found in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Yet the Gulf may be scrubbing itself from the BP Plc spill: Sunshine is evaporating the oil, and bacteria are rapidly digesting it, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Aug. 16 edition. Less crude has infiltrated vulnerable wetlands than was predicted. Documented fish and bird kills have been small, and most Gulf beaches remain pristine. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #1 Notice that they are still pushing Global Warming. |
| Posted by: tipover 2010-08-15 21:56 |