my sentiments exactly Jon,....truely sad to hear him speak.........it really Is,.......It's NOT a good situation down there......"it will be MANY MANY years(his words) until we really know the scope of this...." what the fuk can you say about it......Hearing the Circus show stuff really put some things in perspective......
I think you can turns years into....decades. Having worked in the Gulf for years on all aspects of deep and shallow water trophodynamics (200-3k+) feet, we don't know anything. No one has a clue what the impacts of the oil will be on species and systems that we really don't know much about to begin with. What about the pelagics that spawn in the gulf, what about all of the ichthyoplankton from lots of commercial species (fish and crustaceans), what about the overall ecosystem functions and transfer...
Even if they get it all cleaned up on the surface, the long-term implications are so unknown. It's unfortunate, especially when you find out why things happen and what we could have been doing proactively to help prevent these things.
Can't look back now though, just have to keep looking forward and get it done.
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