CNN announced today the oil disaster would reach key Biscayne and Miami before summers end

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This was at 1:00 PM - IT HAS NEVER BEEN REPEATED ONCE!

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1. I would guess it hasn't been repeated because it should never have been said in the first place.

CNN, like everyone else on the planet, has no way of predicting where the oil spill will be by summer's end.

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3. I wonder if Obama's crew is keeping the more serious news from the public but then

why should Obama be any different with transparency in the news

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9. Of course it can be predicted.

The ocean currents are well known and predictable. The growth of the existing spill can be tracked for speed and direction. Compared to say, predicting the weather two days from now, it's a pretty simple calculation.

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2. Is this with or without one single hurricane?

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4. Perhaps it was an extension of the piece from Saturday

Anyone else hear anything or any updates to this story below? I'm in Miami- we are all horrified (and terrified).



http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/107107-oil-likely-to-reach-miami-florida-keys-government-study-finds

Oil likely to reach Miami, Florida Keys, government study finds
By Walter Alarkon - 07/03/10 01:47 PM ET

South Florida will likely see tar balls reach its shores by August, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

NOAA projections of the 120-day impact of the the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill found that there's a 61 to 80 percent chance the oil will reach Miami, Fort Lauderdale and the Florida Keys.


"Any oil reaching this area would have spent considerable time degrading and dispersing and would be in the form of scattered tar balls and not a large surface slick of oil," the study said.

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6. Perhaps if this story grew BP wouldn't like it(?) and jump on Obama to do something about it

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7. NOAA Models Long-Term Oil Threat to Gulf and East Coast Shoreline

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100702_longterm.html

6 page pdf
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/PDFs/long_term_oil_outlook_report_july2_2010.pdf

"...Considering these factors, the NOAA model indicates:

The coastlines with the highest probability for impact (81 to 100 percent) extend from the Mississippi River Delta to the western panhandle of Florida where there has been and will likely continue to be oil impacts.

Along U.S. Gulf of Mexico shorelines, the oil is more likely to move east than west, with much of the coast of Texas showing a relatively low probability of oiling (ranging from less than one percent in southern Texas to up to 40 percent near the Louisiana border).

Much of the west coast of Florida has a low probability (20 percent down to less than one percent) of oiling, but the Florida Keys, Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas have a greater probability (61 to 80 percent) due to the potential influence of the Loop Current. Any oil reaching this area would have spent considerable time degrading and dispersing and would be in the form of scattered tar balls and not a large surface slick of oil.

There is a low probability of shoreline impacts from eastern central Florida up the Eastern Seaboard (20 percent diminishing to less than one percent). Potential impacts become increasingly unlikely north of North Carolina as the Gulf Stream moves away from the continental U.S. at Cape Hatteras. If oil does reach these areas, it will be in the form of tar balls or highly weathered oil..."

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5. It will go MUCH farther than that.

Five years from now, CNN will report that the oil disaster is affecting Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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8. Republicans and tea bags blaming Obama because he doesn't know how to

stop the oil leak --after all they say he is the president. I have an idea. Since presidents should know all about that why doesn't he give Bush a call. With his eight years experience he should know how to plug that leak and then some. Correct.