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	<title>Comments on: Oil Spill: How Bad is the Damage?</title>
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		<title>By: mkassowitz</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/07/29/oil-spill-how-bad-is-the-damage/comment-page-1/#comment-354</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the old &quot;out-of-sight, out-of-mind&quot; mentality. And I&#039;m sure BP and it&#039;s allies are going to play it for all it is worth. The fact of the matter is that you cannot but expect that millions upon millions of barrels of oil and toxic dispersants are going to just become benign to the environment. The real cost and damage to the area in terms of species affected and human contamination factors have not even come close to being realized as issues. Compare this to another disaster of a totally different kind. A situation happened in NYC after 9/11. Rescue workers were becoming ill at alarming rates and just not getting better. It got so bad that psychiatric &quot;solutions&quot; were being used, with the &quot;thinking&quot; being that it must all be in their heads. The real story was in the air. Lower Manhattan&#039;s air quality was destroyed by the disaster and these heroes were slowly suffocating. In the Gulf, we will see another type of pollution affecting the human and animal populations: minute particles of petrochemicals. People are probably already feeling the effects. The only solution that worked in New York was the New York Rescue Workers Detox Program. I expect a form of this program will be needed over a wide area in the states bordering the oil disaster area. http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2008/03/the-new-york-rescue-workers-detoxification-project/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the old &#8220;out-of-sight, out-of-mind&#8221; mentality. And I&#8217;m sure BP and it&#8217;s allies are going to play it for all it is worth. The fact of the matter is that you cannot but expect that millions upon millions of barrels of oil and toxic dispersants are going to just become benign to the environment. The real cost and damage to the area in terms of species affected and human contamination factors have not even come close to being realized as issues. Compare this to another disaster of a totally different kind. A situation happened in NYC after 9/11. Rescue workers were becoming ill at alarming rates and just not getting better. It got so bad that psychiatric &#8220;solutions&#8221; were being used, with the &#8220;thinking&#8221; being that it must all be in their heads. The real story was in the air. Lower Manhattan&#8217;s air quality was destroyed by the disaster and these heroes were slowly suffocating. In the Gulf, we will see another type of pollution affecting the human and animal populations: minute particles of petrochemicals. People are probably already feeling the effects. The only solution that worked in New York was the New York Rescue Workers Detox Program. I expect a form of this program will be needed over a wide area in the states bordering the oil disaster area. <a href="http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2008/03/the-new-york-rescue-workers-detoxification-project/" rel="nofollow">http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2008/03/the-new-york-rescue-workers-detoxification-project/</a></p>
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		<title>By: cheonghwa</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cheonghwa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i hope it&#039;ll be good]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i hope it&#8217;ll be good</p>
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		<title>By: hirmana</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARE YOU GUYS OUT OF YOUR MINDS?  When I heard the Michael Grunwald&#039;s interview on RT. com I almost fell off my chair when I heard him say that from what he could see, there didn&#039;t appear to be much oil and so he didn&#039;t think it was the catastrophe it was being made out to be!  OMG, my 1st thought was that he has to be a &quot;shill&quot; for the government or for BP, how can he say that, think about it, millions and millions of barrels of oil were released into the gulf coast, then they couple of million gallons of very toxic corexit (that becomes even more toxic when mixed with oil) a product that was banned in Europe!  Does he not realize how sensitive the life in the ocean is and the trickle down effect of all this oil, come on?

Thousands and thousands of animals and marine life have died and will continue to die, and most of them, we may not even see, as they too are stuck at the bottom of the ocean, and BP and the US government would not show us that, so what you don&#039;t see, you don&#039;t see, and that&#039;s because they don&#039;t want you to see it because what you do see, will cost them money!  It&#039;s already been shown that there is a major amount of oil sitting on the bottom of the gulf coast and underwater divers have shown (with cameras) how abnormally cloudy the water is with all that oil mixed with the corexit, floating around the water discussed as plankton, waiting for starving feeding marine life, (if there still any living now), to eat it and then die because of it.  

I would like to know if Michael Grunwald went for a swim  while he was there visiting Louisiana&#039;s coastline, if he doesn&#039;t think it&#039;s that bad!

In fact CNN, not that I believe anything they say, but, they had a test done on the sand, and they dug down a few inches only, and because the sand is so white, (well it was) you could actually see the slight oil layers in it, and you know, that wasn&#039;t even the wet sand near the water, which has got to be worse the closer you get to the water!  The sand was tested, and it was found to have a small amount of oil in it, and that&#039;s just from &quot;seepage&quot; and it only makes sense that with the dispersant mixed with that oil (which they never tested for the corexit in the sand) has got to be even worse for seepage as it&#039;s now much thinner?  How can&#039;t it?  

Anyhow, it would take a fool to believe that this oil spill is not a &quot;catastrophe&quot; in the Gulf Coast, because it certainly is, and it&#039;s an even worst catastrophe to learn that BP will be able to right off &quot;all&quot; of the clean up cost including the 20 billion escrow money, and the US tax payer &quot;will&quot; have to pay for that, too!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ARE YOU GUYS OUT OF YOUR MINDS?  When I heard the Michael Grunwald&#8217;s interview on RT. com I almost fell off my chair when I heard him say that from what he could see, there didn&#8217;t appear to be much oil and so he didn&#8217;t think it was the catastrophe it was being made out to be!  OMG, my 1st thought was that he has to be a &#8220;shill&#8221; for the government or for BP, how can he say that, think about it, millions and millions of barrels of oil were released into the gulf coast, then they couple of million gallons of very toxic corexit (that becomes even more toxic when mixed with oil) a product that was banned in Europe!  Does he not realize how sensitive the life in the ocean is and the trickle down effect of all this oil, come on?</p>
<p>Thousands and thousands of animals and marine life have died and will continue to die, and most of them, we may not even see, as they too are stuck at the bottom of the ocean, and BP and the US government would not show us that, so what you don&#8217;t see, you don&#8217;t see, and that&#8217;s because they don&#8217;t want you to see it because what you do see, will cost them money!  It&#8217;s already been shown that there is a major amount of oil sitting on the bottom of the gulf coast and underwater divers have shown (with cameras) how abnormally cloudy the water is with all that oil mixed with the corexit, floating around the water discussed as plankton, waiting for starving feeding marine life, (if there still any living now), to eat it and then die because of it.  </p>
<p>I would like to know if Michael Grunwald went for a swim  while he was there visiting Louisiana&#8217;s coastline, if he doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that bad!</p>
<p>In fact CNN, not that I believe anything they say, but, they had a test done on the sand, and they dug down a few inches only, and because the sand is so white, (well it was) you could actually see the slight oil layers in it, and you know, that wasn&#8217;t even the wet sand near the water, which has got to be worse the closer you get to the water!  The sand was tested, and it was found to have a small amount of oil in it, and that&#8217;s just from &#8220;seepage&#8221; and it only makes sense that with the dispersant mixed with that oil (which they never tested for the corexit in the sand) has got to be even worse for seepage as it&#8217;s now much thinner?  How can&#8217;t it?  </p>
<p>Anyhow, it would take a fool to believe that this oil spill is not a &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; in the Gulf Coast, because it certainly is, and it&#8217;s an even worst catastrophe to learn that BP will be able to right off &#8220;all&#8221; of the clean up cost including the 20 billion escrow money, and the US tax payer &#8220;will&#8221; have to pay for that, too!</p>
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		<title>By: onestarman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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