COULD BP'S DISPERSANTS CAUSE APOCALYPTIC RAINS? BIRDS AND VEGETATION ARE DYING

[G_j]

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http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/widespread-mysterious-crop-damage-near-gulf-oil-spill-area/

Even before Care2's Tracy Viselli posted a troubling video that asked "Is it raining oil in Lousiana?" there were concerns that damage from the oil gusher and subsequent dispersant treatments could spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches.

See: BP's Dispersant Could Cause Toxic Rain All Over East Coast
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/bps-dispersants-could-cause-toxic-rain/

Fishermen, shrimpers, hotel owners, restaurant chefs, and charter boat touring companies have already had their industries devastated by the Gulf oil spill disaster, now in its second month.

Now, it appears that the collateral damage could extend inland to include agricultural crops all the way in Mississippi.

The video below details a mysterious "disease" that has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or "disease" (SF Gate).

[nashville_brook]

1. we've seen this before -- acid rain

this is a picture of acid rain damage.



could be from the gasses escaping from the well.

[leveymg]

2. Dispersed aromatic hydrocarbons such as Butane have similar toxic effects

The mysterious crop damage farmers in Mississippi began to notice earlier this month could be a combination of acid rain and butane rain, problems that will worsen as BP continues to flare off huge amounts of methane and the hydrocarbons in crude oil come to the surface of the Gulf waters and evaporate. Volatile aromatic hydrocarbons are a component of crude oil, and the use of Corexit has broken oil sludge down into finer particles that are more easily lofted into the atmosphere where they fall back with rain showers. Downwind of that after a rain will smell like an oil refinery, and crops and animals, particularly birds, fresh water fish and snails, will experience the toxic effects of Butane, Corexit and Acid Rain.

This will go on for many months or years as the dispersed oil droplets continue to circulate within the water column and steadily rise to the surface over a wider and wider area of the sea. Corexit has made this problem astronomically worse, and is now beginning to impact life forms on land and fresh water.



It will also exacerbate an already critical ozone smog problem, which has its own toxic effects, including skin cancers.



Massive marine life die offs, beach and waterfront fouling, and crop damage are just the beginning of the catastrophic environmental health problems that are inevitable from a marine crude oil release of this magnitude, particularly with the huge application of dispersants that only spread and complicate the toxic effects of the oil.