A-uaRN- ''I skipped a letter because my keyboard is broken'' First of all,you have brought up a very interesting subject. I really should not attempt to awnswer your ? as I am not knowledgeable enough to do so with a significant amount of accuracy or confidance.However I will say that come hurricane season if a large enough area of the gulf is covered with a thick enough sheen of oil then any tropical system moving over that slick will have difficulty developing further or maintaining streangth.Now having said that we should remember that the gulf heats up to 80 degrees or more for a depth of probably several hundred feet.A strong tropical system to the south of the slick would have a tendacy to overturn and stir up a great deal of warm sea water,which as the storm approached the slick may very well cause a significant amount of dispersal ,therby limiting the effect the slick might have on the system.It might also be the case that by the time hurricane season arrives that the oil could be so weathered as to prevent the slick from significantly effecting the transfer of heat from the water to the atmosphere ? I am ceartain that there are a million plus factors I have not even considered,but perhaps I have sparked some usefull debate.
The catastrophy here is not that offshore drilling will be hampered ! This accident is the kind of thing that we can count on happening for as long as we have industrial scale oil drilling.The catastrophy here involves the lives which have been lost first and formost.Beyond that aspect of this tragedy we will most likely be dealing with destroyed ecosystems,''many of them already endangered''decimated wildlife populations,thousands of lost jobs,disrupted and destroyed human lifestyles,more lost homes,''due to lost jobs''the possibility of oil polluted ground water,meaning a loss of drinking water and a host of other problems which I have missed.
The bottom line is this,we had better start treating this planet as if it were our home,not some huge assortment of ''natural and so called human resources''. If we would learn to collectivly slow down,take some time to do some storm gazing,a little fishing ,reading et,then we would not need nearly as much fossil fuel derived energy.And oh yea,a few less wars would go a very long way towards allowing our planet to support life for a good while yet ! It might help to remember that our creator ''gave'' us a pretty neat planet to live upon, therefore the rat race to improve even nature herself and develop,develop,develop is realy not nessacary nor is it ultimately good for us or our planet. If I sound like a bleeding heart liberal commy,well thats just to damend bad ! To be very honest I could do without the freedom to suffer from the international corporation's huge enviromental disastors.I would much rather have the freedom to enjoy nature and a slower pace of life with less development, than the freedom to always be engaged in the capatalist rat race,which is essentialy a race to the death of true freedom,''the right to enjoy nature,not destroy her'' and of the earth her self. |