NASA shot of Deepwater Horizon oil spew from four days ago . . . This black dog's bite is much worse than its bark.
Am almost finished reading Peter Maas, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Knopf, 2009) and it couldn't be more timely -- or more sickeningly relevant. Will report more when done.
Photo: "Oil Leak from Damaged Well in Gulf of Mexico," NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (April 25, 2010). Deepwater Horizon Incident: NOAA Situation Update 25 Apr 10. Emergency Response Division, Office of Response and Restoration Website. Retrieved April 26, 2010
Today's Rune: Gateway.
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sickening. Now they are calling for military intervention. But what are they going to do, nuke it? A lot of bad stuff is going to hit the beaches and kill the fish in this thing.
"The Gulf region accounts for about a fifth of total U.S. commercial seafood production and nearly three-quarters of the nation's shrimp output . . .:
WSJ (4/30/10 ed.), Ángel González, "Louisiana 'Fishing Capital' Braces for Giant Slick."
I haven't read any books on oil in a while. I covered it the first month of blogging.
This is going to be bad, very bad. I wonder why with so many rigs in the gulf they did not have emergency containment equipment on site. BP says it will be a week before they can get the best of their equipment there.
Like pretty much all environmental disasters, this was entirely forseeable. The problem is we're a reactive rather than a proactive society regarding such things. We have to get slapped in the face with something like this before we take the threat seriously.
JC
Of course it's so much worse now (& will continue to be worse for a while, even IF the temporary fix works.) It'll be decades before the area recovers (& some areas, like the coral reef near the rig, itself & the ancient oyster beds off the shores of Mississippi & Alabama,) may never recover. Let's just hope--blindly, foolishly--that they contain the spill before it reaches the slingshot current.
(Sorry for the delay in my visit. The switch from XP to Win7 64 bit's been a total SOB, at best. Half the time I can't even load a webpage. Win7 so far seems "simpler" (in their parlance,) probably because so very little works on it. *sigh*
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