On May 4, 4:31*pm, hk wrote:
On 5/4/10 4:27 PM, A.Boater wrote:

On *4-May-2010, *wrote:

Prove it

That doesn't take a lot of effort.
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2133

You're dealing with Boatless Flajim there, whose wife left him for a
cucumber.

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The Tea Party's teabaggers are just the Republican base by another name.

A. Boater: What a silly propaganda article. They repeatedly mention
the herring yet both NOAA and the AK fisheries commission says herring
had record catches 3 years AFTER the spill and then were reduced to
25% probably due to overfishing.
NOAA says you can find oil under th sand and in tidal pools but they
also show data on the oil and find that because the volatile
components are gone that its toxicity is low enough for organisms to
live with it. This is why the sediment fauna is slowly recovering
(once again, see the NOAA data). Of course, there are species that
rely on herring that was overfished. Draw a linear trend through the
data and you get 50 years for recovery to pre-spill. In reality,
populations do not grow linearly, the grow exponentially so we should
probably expect recovery to pre-spill within 30 years from now.

In the Gulf of Mexico, where the UV index gives nearly 3X the amount
of UV light and there is a lot more bio-degradation, we should expect
a recovery at 6X the rate as in AK.
Data ALWAYS trumps emotionalism.