Showing posts with label Bill Lehr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Lehr. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Scientist Recants on Gulf Oil Spill Claim

by bubbanomics

From the Guardian:

In an appearance before Congress, Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offered a very different account of the oil that poured into the Gulf, appearing to contradict the official report from two weeks ago that he wrote, which suggested the majority of the oil had been captured or broken down

"I would say most of that is still in the environment," Lehr told the House energy and commerce committee.

His statement is bound to deepen a sense of outrage in the scientific community that the White House is hiding data and spinning the science of the oil spill.



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Friday, August 6, 2010

Scientists say: The Oil is NOT Gone -- even if our Attention spans are

by jamess

How did five million barrels of oil simply disappear?

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs points to a pie chart on the BP oil spill during the Daily White House Press Briefing, Washington, DC.

AFP/ Getty Images


OK there you go -- Only about 26% Residual Oil is left.

"Residual" -- that's like "smoke" -- like the Morning Fog.

That doesn't sound so bad. ... It should be gone in No Time, right?

Don't bet on it.


Even NOAA Administrator, Jane Lubchenco, still has some concerns ...



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Thursday, August 5, 2010

When does 'Mostly Gone' actually mean, 'A LOT is still There'?

by jamess


The oil has gone? Tell that to Gulf coast residents
By Rupert Cornwell, independent.co.uk -- 6 August 2010

And though only a quarter of the 4.9m barrels reckoned to have leaked is still unaccounted, that represents the equivalent of five Exxon Valdez, the tanker whose spill caused an environmental catastrophe in Alaska in 1989.

"There are still boats out there every day working, finding turtles with oil on them and seeing grass lines with oil in it," charter boat captain Randy Boggs, of Orange Beach in Alabama, told the Associated Press. "All the oil isn't accounted for. There are millions of pounds of tar balls and oil on the bottom."


Turns out, This -- TIMES 5 --

IS mostly STILL There! ... lurking somewhere, just below the surface ...



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