LET ME COVER YOU IN OIL

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ITEM: A computer modeling study released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) estimates that oil from the BP Gulf Oil Disaster could extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer.

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The study comes with plenty of caveats:

Peacock and her colleagues stress that the simulations are not a forecast because it is impossible to accurately predict the precise location of the oil weeks or months from now. Instead, the simulations provide an envelope of possible scenarios for the oil dispersal. The timing and course of the oil slick will be affected by regional weather conditions and the ever-changing state of the Gulf’s Loop Current—neither of which can be predicted more than a few days in advance. The dilution of the oil relative to the source will also be impacted by details such as bacterial degradation, which are not included in the simulations.

Still, no wonder Tony Hayward is trying to reassure his shareholders that BP has things under control.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin has a message for the environmentalists out there:



Because if you’d have let oil companies drill as much as they want wherever they want, this never would have happened in places where it’s too hard to fix.

So thanks a lot, hippies. Yr radical Muslim green fascism just killed the Gulf of Mexico and the entire Atlantic seaboard. Hope yr happy.

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