Based off of U.S. Scientists Report 75 percent of the Gulf Oil Gone

[SunsetDreams]

White House energy adviser Carol Browner said this on CBS 'The Early Show'

CBS Headline: U.S. Says 75% of Oil Gone, but Skeptics Remain

White House energy adviser Carol Browner said that a new assessment found that about 75 percent of the oil had either been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down in the Gulf of Mexico.

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"I think we are getting some good news out of the Gulf in terms of the information from the static kill and also what our scientists are telling us - the vast majority of the oil has been contained, it's been burned, it's been cleaned and that's good news for the people of the Gulf," Browner said on CBS' "The Early Show".

Browner said the remaining oil is expected to "break down naturally."

"Mother Nature will do her part, but we'll continue to be vigilant to ensure anything that comes on shore, the tar balls, the sheen, is cleaned up rapidly," she said.

The report's calculations were based on daily operational reports, estimates by scientists and various analyses by experts. The government acknowledged it made certain assumptions about how oil dissolves in water naturally over time.

Officials, while encouraged by the report, stressed that the fight wasn't over.

"Less oil on the surface does not mean that there isn't oil still in the water column or that our beaches and marshes aren't still at risk," NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco cautioned in a news release.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/04/national/main6741897.shtml

I don't know if I believe the scientists, but I would have to see the whole report. I want to see exactly how they measured this and what methods they used to determine their finding.

[reprehensor]

1. "Gone"

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/4/antonia_juhasz_bps_missing_oil_washes

Antonia Juhasz: BP’s "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary’s Parish, LA

We speak with independent journalist Antonia Juhasz, who is just back from Louisiana, where she found what she calls some of BP’s "missing oil" on the wetlands and beaches along the waterways near St. Mary’s Parish, where no one is booming, cleaning, skimming or watching.

[dipsydoodle]

3. If 75% has gone

then common sense will tell you that 25% remains. It follows that the St. Mary’s Parish stuff is part of the 25%.

[leveymg]

2. Hasn't "gone" anywhere - most of it has evaporated into air - or is dispersed in the water column,

NOAA reported in mid-July extremely high concentration of hydrocarbons over US coastal cities in the Gulf region. About 30 percent has evaporated, which means all that lovely carcinogenic benzene and other toxic aromatic hydrocarbons are in the air. Another 30 percent will sink to the bottom where it will foul shellfish and other lifeforms. Most of the rest is suspended in the water column, where algal microbes feed on it, using up oxygen, creating expanded dead zones.

Problem hasn't "gone away", it's just changed form, spread over a larger area, and become longer-term.

[marions ghost]

4. Ha ha

"we'll be vigilant to clean up the tar balls..."

But what about all that dispersed oil that is still there?

Unbelievable whitewash going on. The govt has to now protect the decision to allow the dispersant.

[SunsetDreams]

5. kick

[DFW]

6. "Gone" like the Taliban was "gone" from Afghanistan

And will be back in the very same manner, and probably just as viciously.

[Locrian]

7. hmmmm....

Are these the same people that said "ground zero" air / etc was safe to breath????

[SunsetDreams]

10. Probably so lol

[SunsetDreams]

13. kick

[Paper Roses]

8. Dig a little, 'gone' will return. What a load of baloney. n/t

[bdamomma]

9. sorry but put me in "skeptics" category.

a big yea sure is my response.

[Poboy]

11. Local online poll:

Do you believe the government report claiming nearly 75 percent of the oil that spewed into the gulf is no longer there?
No ( 82% )
Yes ( 18% )


http://www.wwl.com/

[VMI Dem]

12. From what I can see from here, 100% is gone.