re: Six Years Ago Today: Deepwater Horizon Explodes

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The reality is that the impact (like always) is somewhere between where the alarmists say it is and where the deniers say it is

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I agree there, but to be all doom and gloom, and refuse to eat gulf seafood post spill, as dukke is, that is extremely short sighted. There was already a clear presence of oil in the gulf before the spill due to natural seeps, so if he ate it before, he was exposed to the same thing he would be post spill. I think the spill had a large impact on the area, but I do not think it is by any means some doom and gloom outcome.

Our company actually had Dr Ed Overton from LSU, who worked both Exxon-Valdez and the DWH spills, come out and talk about the spill. His summary is that our ecosystem is actually much more equipped to handle a spill or disaster than us feeble-minded, think we know if all humans give it credit for. I tend to agree with a guy who has had a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences since 1970.