Last week, I posted about how it's misleading to conclude that the worst of the BP oil disaster is over just because the cap seems to be working and the amount of visible surface oil is declining. This week, news reports are bearing that out. Since the cap was put in place, the numbers of oiled wildlife have been on the increase.
The reality is that there’s still a massive amount of oil out there and wildlife is continuing to be exposed to it. The visible surface oil might be on the decline, as last week’s NOAA report indicated, but there’s still the equivalent of multiple Exxon Valdez disasters out there. And right now many birds are fledging and leaving the nesting colonies, exposing a whole new generation to the oil for the first time, which is likely contributing to the increase in oiled birds recovered in recent days.
http://blogs.discovery.com/gulf-oil-spill/2010/08/numbers-of-oiled-wildlife-increasing.html#mkcpgn=fbapl1So Rush, you want to keep claiming that "god" and BP have cleaned up this spill? I'm sure the media will continue to do the its almost all gone and better meme as well....
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