LiveScience | What Will Happen During the Next 100 Days of the Oil Spill?
… scientists say it could take decades to comprehend the toll the last 100 days took on wildlife — from sea turtles to bacteria.
Currently, oil covers approximately 638 miles (1,026 kilometers) of Gulf shoreline, according to the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center
… can only hope that about 35 years from now, when these hatchlings reach maturity, they will still have the same instinct to return to the beaches where their mothers nested to lay eggs.
The size of the “dead zones,” where low oxygen levels cause marine life to languish and die, may grow in the coming days … [But] “the Gulf, with the warm temperature and the sunshine, can break down the oil really fast,” [University of Texas Marine Science Institute marine researcher Zhanfei] Liu said. “It spreads out, the bacteria attacks the oil really fast. This is not like the oil spill in Alaska.
Undoubtedly, hurricanes will visit the Gulf within the next 100 days ” hurricane season won’t end until the beginning of December … But scientists cannot predict how a hurricane might disperse the oil.
Put differently, our fate is similar to that of Joel, Crow and Tom Servo, trapped on a spaceship and forced to watch this low-budget horror movie play out until god knows when.
Image from Photoshop of Horrors: Wired Readers Show BP How It’s Done
Hey Maitri – It seems geobadgers are also busy geobloggers…
I love your MST3K metaphor. I think it’s very apt and fits perfectly within the zeitgeist of the geoblogosphere.