Oil Spill Encounters Loop Current -- Satellite image speaks volumes

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Oil Spill Encounters Loop Current
by Tim Ballisty, Jon Erdman
Satellite image speaks volumes

There have been conflicting rumblings across the newswire services and across social media outlets whether the Gulf oil spill has been entrained into the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current.

The images below from NASA's MODIS satellite speaks volumes and confirms many people's worst fears.

Per The Weather Channel's tropical expert Dr. Richard Knabb, "based on satellite images, model simulations, and on-site research vessel reports, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the oil slick at the surface is very near or partially in the loop current. The loop current is responsible in the first place for extending that stream of oil off to the southeast in satellite imagery..."

MORE AT: http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/oil-spill-encounters-loop-current_2010-05-17

[tnlurker]

1. That looks pretty clear to me

Atlantic Ocean here it comes.

[liberal N proud]

2. The long arm of death.

[earth mom]

6. I'd love to hear them call it that on the evening news. But they won't because

the media is busy covering asses and worrying about profits and wall street, while everyone in Washington DC is worrying re-election and other political bullshit. :grr:

[liberal N proud]

8. A local Cleveland station is calling it the Black Tide

[earth mom]

9. Black Tide or maybe even Black Death.

:cry:

[thewiseguy]

3. OH CRAP

[metapunditedgy]

4. I'm getting more interested in where all the *underwater* oil is going.

What are the currents like as a function of depth?

It's going to be important to make sure BP isn't allowed to pretend that the surface slick is the full extent of damage.

[thereismore]

5. It doesn't matter where it is now. Nobody is ever going to "clean" it up, ever.

All that matters now is stopping the gusher.

[Swamp Rat]

7. yep

[BeFree]

10. Yep. Put a plug in it

A few days ago BP was asking for advice on how to plug it.

Can you fucking believe they were asking people for advice?

They don't care a damn thing for the environment.

They are telling us to go Cheney ourselves.

But they'll not get away with it. Because we won't let them, right?