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**DadaSeeva** · 05-18-2010, 10:37 AM

I read a story in the LA Times about how the eco-system below the water's surface may be devastated by this for quite some time to come. It's a tragedy and BP, which reported a profit of $5.6 billion in just the first quarter of this year, can seem to run away from responsibility fast enough. A freakin' mess, indeed.

Exactly, Richard. Some of my weather geek friends have been posting about this for a couple of weeks. The oil is not just on the surface, but in the water column. Think of the oil on the surface as the tip of the Titantic iceberg. A mixture of oil and metane gas emulsified in the water may be 90% of the spill and it's not visibile. The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st with most storms originating in the Caribbean and southern GOM. Nobody really knows what those storms will do when they pass over this huge pocket of oil and gas. Obviously, because of convection, some of the material will enter the storm, but what happens after that...?

05-18-2010, 10:37 AM	#3
DadaSeeva Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	I read a story in the LA Times about how the eco-system below the water's surface may be devastated by this for quite some time to come. It's a tragedy and BP, which reported a profit of $5.6 billion in just the first quarter of this year, can seem to run away from responsibility fast enough. A freakin' mess, indeed. Exactly, Richard. Some of my weather geek friends have been posting about this for a couple of weeks. The oil is not just on the surface, but in the water column. Think of the oil on the surface as the tip of the Titantic iceberg. A mixture of oil and metane gas emulsified in the water may be 90% of the spill and it's not visibile. The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st with most storms originating in the Caribbean and southern GOM. Nobody really knows what those storms will do when they pass over this huge pocket of oil and gas. Obviously, because of convection, some of the material will enter the storm, but what happens after that...?
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