Toxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2, Living on Earth, February 18, 2011:
IRA LEIFER (a chief mission scientist for NASA and UCSB oceanographer): ...[T]hey showed up as if they had almost a millimeter of oil in the cloud. And these hydrocarbon-laden clouds - when they reach land - would in fact rain oil.
Leifer thinks this oil rain is an unprecedented oil spill phenomenon - a combination of the Gulf's high humidity and the columns of thick smoke from burning oil. A lot of things about the BP blowout made it unlike other oil spills.
Most spills happen all at once, say, when a tanker or pipe ruptures. The BP wellhead kept spewing for 87 days, sending oil to the surface in a plume that Leifer says kept pushing the oil's toxic chemicals into the air.
LEIFER: Air sampling that was conducted both on a boat and by NOAA in the atmosphere showed that this plume contained numerous components and that these components were...many of them are toxic...
Download the entire broadcast here.
See also:
- TOXIC RAIN says NSF-funded geochemist: “It may very well be raining hydrocarbons” far inland from coast (VIDEO)
- Chemist: Chemicals from dispersed oil “coming down as rain”
- New
reports of ACID RAIN “further INLAND” from Gulf; “Not a big surprise”
says reporter — Dispersants can “also be carried inland” - *JUST IN* Geochemist in Gulf says “When it rains, a lot of junk comes down from the particulate”
reverse micelle encapsulation
if someone can tell me wtf this means, i'll be your uncle!!! Isaac, you short on relations? this monkey could use a little translation
http://chemgroups.ucdavis.edu/~ames/paper%20PDFs/structure-2010.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micelle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioctyl_sodium_sulfosuccinate
*note*
" Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate is a pesticide[3] used popularly for crops of olives, almonds, wine grapes, corn and oranges."
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-dispersants-gulf-prolonged-deepwater-fate.html
thanks, Isaac, for the wiki links. pretty nasty stuff there.
might just need to be distant cousins though.
WARNING: PHYSORG.COM link has a VIRUS ATTACHED. fyi all, might NOT want to open that last link.
Snow too ... It's Snowing Oil in Seattle and... It Gets Stranger ! *VIDEO* ...
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/372/537/Its_Snowing_Oil_in_Seattle_and..._It_Gets_Stranger_VIDEO.html
Jerry Cope is a Gulf hero.
Is anyone else reporting on this disaster besides Huffington?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/nasa-data-toxic-rain_b_830481.html
Best of luck.............
The individuals who have no symptoms think they are either safe or that we who are sick are actually mentally ill not physically ill. One of my greatest fears is that people will deny they could have been effected and then in 5 years or even ten years when they have cancer or their child who they assumed was fine 10 years ago can not have children with their spouse they will fail to see the connection or it will be to late for them to get help from BP because they took 5000 and ran! God help us and those who are intent to keep their heads in the sand.
sending oil to the surface in a plume that Leifer says kept pushing the oil’s toxic chemicals into the air. Oh GOD.......
They’ve done very little to help anyone in the gulf. In fact, they allowed the British to poison our waters. They could have stopped them, but didn’t. The oil may now be dug out, but the poison is still in that water along with flesh eating disease
Why did the BP blow out preventer not work as it was designed to due in the oil disaster?