Friday, May 28, 2010

oil calamity

I read a headline yesterday indicating that this poses to be a very active hurricane season.

Hurricanes either come from or pass through the swath of BP oil that continues to grow.

Hurricanes pick up moisture (and oil-laden moisture) and carries the moisture (and the oil-laden moisture) to drop it all along the path that the hurricane takes.

Is this oil calamity going to turn into an oil catastrophe, or has it already done so?

6 comments:

Zhoen said...

Just a matter of scale. Huge or gigantic.

mez said...

The result of this oil spill will be felt for many, many years, throughout the world... I believe we won't even know what the true impact will be until at least a decade from now.

No way you can leak millions upon millions of litres of toxic oil into our ecosystem without major long-term ramifications.

In short, we're f*cked.

mez said...

I also find it hilarious that the Canadian government is now looking into what to do with the Arctic, due to its untapped oil supply.

How about LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE?? We have the means and technology to seek alternatives, and have had them for more than three decades. Will we never learn to wean off our unhealthy dependency on petrol?

ghost said...

yeah. its already become one.

rita said...

It depends on who you talk to...

Mercenaria said...

I would think if you were a marine mammal, a bird, an amphibian, a reptile, a crustacean, a mollusk, an insect, a plant, or really any living creature, then you would be extremely unhappy.