VIDEO: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 22-mile oil plume lurking beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s surface
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BP OIL SPILL is 100 days old today
Despite the unprecedented environmental disaster that the BP Oil Spill is, the U.S. Congress is no closer to passing clean energy legislation that transitions the United States from depending on oil, which is a nonrenewable and dirty energy resource, mostly derived from hostile foreign sources, to cleaner domestic forms of energy sources that aren’t carbon intensive.
Furthermore, if we’re to continue to evolve as a modern democratic society, then we’ll need to find cleaner forms of energy that are renewable. Additionally, we must balance environmental interests with development goals, since our future well-being is intimately bound up with the availability of natural resources and an access to clean environments.
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PEAK OIL: LOL OIL
LOL @ society for supporting politicians, policies, and lifestyles that reinforce our addiction to oil—a nonrenewable resource. Our delayed reaction to our predicament and continued apathy towards change reminds me of the Aesop fable—The Grasshopper and the Ants.
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VIDEO: The longterm fate of the oil spill in the Atlantic
Via io9
And more on this video via the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
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BP OIL SPILL from the air
These images are from “James Duncan Davidson, TED’s conference photographer, [and he] is among a crew of five photographers and videographers reporting on the Gulf of Mexico for the TEDxOilSpill Expedition.” You can find more photos from the TEDxOilSpill Expedition on the Flickr page of duncandavidson, and you can follow TEDxOilSpill on Twitter or read their blog. TEDxOilSpill is also conducting a poster competition.
Surface oil:
Oil burning on the ocean’s surface:
Oil in the marshes and islands of Barataria Bay, Louisiana:
Shrimp boats skim the ocean’s surface around Barataria Bay, Louisiana:
The Deepwater Horizon accident site showing controlled burns being conducted and ”one of two drilling rigs drilling the releif [sic] wells“:
The authors or licensors of these images do not endorse my work or me and their images are protected under an attribution license.
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