UK scientists at odds with US over effects of oil spill

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/76746a66-82db-11df-b7ad-00144feabdc0.html

The long-term effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are likely to be small, a group of leading scientists said on Monday, but some of the clean-up methods may be doing more harm than good.

Their views contradicted those of the White House, which has described the oil spill as the “worst environmental catastrophe” to hit the US, and has ordered BP to make greater efforts to clean up the spill.

The scientists, from prominent British universities, said much of the outcry about the oil spill was informed by politics, rather than science. However, they acknowledged that the spill was having severe short-term effects on the livelihoods of people in the Gulf.

And, in a warning that will chill proponents of opening up new oilfields in the Arctic, the scientists added that similar spills in icy areas would be far more problematic.

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