Reply #98: Guess I just trust the scientists at the University of South Florida and the University of Georgia [View All]

[BrklynLiberal]

more than I trust the government and BP spokespersons who might have more reason to lie and cover up the true extent of the devastation that is still ongoing in the Gulf.

http://peoplesworld.org/oil-still-a-problem-in-the-gulf-scientists-warn/

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http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1906041/much_oil_remains_in_gulf_scientists_claim/

Much Oil Remains In Gulf, Scientists Claim

Posted on: Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 09:55 CDT


"The oil is not gone, that's for sure. There is oil and we need to deal with it," scientist David Hollander told Borenstein on Tuesday. He also told the AP reporter that two out of every five plankton samples that his team retrieved from depths of between 900 and 3,300 feet "some degree of toxicity" and that the pollutants that are poisoning them could linger for an indeterminate amount of time.

The USF and Georgia reports contradict comments made by NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco, who on August 4 told reporters that "at least 50-percent" of the oil that had been leaking out of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig for more than three months "is now completely gone from the system, and most of the remainder is degrading rapidly or is being removed from the beaches."