Aug 18 2010
Two weeks ago we were being told the majority of the Oil Spilled was “mostly” gone …
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.
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Now, University of South Florida, Marine Scientists are reporting Science has a different tale, to tell …
Jul 24 2010
Now for a little exercise in News Spin Cycles, vs the Scientific Process …
When the Facts, finally come in, IS Anyone even still Paying Attention?
“What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is,” said chemical oceanographer David Hollander, one of three USF researchers credited with the matching samples of oil taken from the water with samples from the BP well. “It has gone from a two-dimensional disaster to a three-dimensional catastrophe.”
[…]Together, the two studies confirm what in the early days of the spill was denied by BP and viewed skeptically by NOAA’s chief – that much of the crude that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon well stayed beneath the surface of the water.
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