[Vision2020] "Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills" 168 Responses

[keely emerinemix]

Good point, Warren.  I don't believe there's a word to adequately convey the magnitude of what happened here.  "Spill" is what happens when I knock over my glass of Cabernet.  This is not that, and what's happened in the Gulf isn't a "mishap" or "error," either.  It's a horror, a grievous disaster, and an unmitigated tragedy.  That it may not be a crime in no way reflects any lessening of its severity, only decades of governmental indifference to environmental concerns.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: whayman at roadrunner.com
To: starbliss at gmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:51:20 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills" 168 Responses










I think we should try to keep our vocabulary in line with actuality. The 
Gulf oil disaster/irruption is not a spill. Such a term possibly reflects a 
misunderstanding of both magnitude and geology.
 
Warren Hayman
 

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  http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/five-thousand-gulf-oil-spills/
   
  Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills
   
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    Climate Science— david @ 16 June 2010 
  
  That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from 
  fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and 
  oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the 
  environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more 
  damaging on geologic time scales). But think of it — five thousand spills like 
  in the Gulf of Mexico, all going at once, each releasing 40,000 barrels a day, 
  every day for decades and centuries on end. We are burning a lot of 
  carbon!

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