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Hurricane floods sodden Louisiana
The US city of New Orleans faces the high winds and rain of Hurricane Isaac, after sea water breaches a levee in an area to the south of the city.
London set for Paralympics opener- Chimp grooming postcode lotteryChimpanzee grooming habits are influenced more by where they live than by genetic or ecological influences, according to research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.August-29-12 9:27:20 AM
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- Dwarf pair pump out gravity wavesAstronomers spot the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein that have never been directly seen.August-29-12 4:45:07 AM
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Sprint adds four markets to its slow-growing LTE network
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Isaac tests new levees
The fury of Isaac slammed into Louisiana with strong winds and pounding rain, generating the first real test early Wednesday of flood control...
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Morally Indefensible: Tutu Refuses to Share Platform with Blair
anti-apartheid icon and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has withdrawn from a leadership summit in South Africa to protest the presence of former prime minister Tony Blair, whose support for the Iraq War Tutu condemned as "morally indefensible." Meanwhile, calls are mounting for the arrest of Blair for crimes against humanity when he appears.
Coal Miners Stand with Mitt (Because They're Forced To)
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The American Onslaught Against International Law
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In Ascent to GOP's Top Ranks, "Money & Pandering" Leads Paul Ryan to Drop Opposition to Cuba Embargo
Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in Louisiana, Threatening New Orleans With Heavy Flooding
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Star Wars-Like Planet With Two Suns Spotted
Could a Luke Skywalker-like alien be gazing at twin sunsets each evening from a far away planet?
Penis-Headed Fish Found: DNews Nugget
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EPA to Extend Public Comment Period On Air Permit for Arecibo Waste to Energy Facility; Agency Will Hold Five Public Hearing Sessions August 25, 26 and 27
EPA Region 7 Tribal Program Awards Grants to Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri for Water Monitoring, Radon Protection
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Final National Recommended Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Carbaryl--2012
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What Happens When Antibiotics Stop Working?
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The Soap You Should Never Use -- But 75% of Households Do
Dietary Fats and Risk of Sudden cardiac Death in Women
( in relation to this sort of thought I tried Oudo's oils...and rather fudged any conclusion, though I have it still and use some sporadically )
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Make The Ohio State University Campus Smoke-Free
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The Republican Convention was a badly managed Circus with a Klan-like mob mentality
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Isaac breaks through levees, trapping some residents, with up to half a million homes and businesses without power.Tom McCarthy
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Everybody is so busy worrying about how the story is perceived you have to wonder at the lack of note of a basic fact : the FBI never listed Osama bin Laden as wanted for perpetrating 9-11. There are stories of how he was located and ignored, frustrating operatives. Plus there is the intimate connection with Bu$hCo and the fact he was a Saudi prince. Do you realize Taleban requests for legal documentation to facilitate extradition were ignored ? The videos ? Long revealed as as a disinformation ploy by Mossad. I still think the claim a 6'4" dying guy on dialysis evaded capture for 10 years is odd in the extreme.
August-29-12 12:16:27 PM I forgot to mention he was a CIA paymaster for Charlie Wilson's War where the USSR was sucked into interminable war in Afghanistan because of...wait for it...fears of Islamic terrorism. It would be funny if not tragic.
BTW Reports of downed NATO and US helicopters today remind me of the military materiel support given...which included handheld antiaircraft missiles.
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IV-12-034: NRC Enters Monitoring Mode in Advance of Hurricane Isaac
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Ex-Somali PM must pay $21m for torture
A former Somali prime minister denied diplomatic immunity must pay $21m in damages to the victims of his alleged torture and human rights abuse, a...
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A new low for global warming: Sea ice retreats to furthest point on record
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Disease-ridden Fish, Eyeless Shrimp, Mutated Sea Life – Welcome to the Toxic Gulf of Mexico
Maou Tsaou says:
The Earth has something like 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 total water molecules.An old Life nature library volume The Sea tries to put this unimaginable number into perspective.
It mentions that a water molecule is only one eighteen-billionth of an inch in diameter yet together they would make a column of water 75 miles in diameter and 70,000 miles high.
But it then points out the connectiveness of the system with another example.
Take an 8 ounce glass of water and mark the molecules so they can be identified then take the glass and pour it in the ocean.
After a few thousand years of “mixing” every glass of water in the sea would hold about 1500 molecules from the original glass.
So what about the Gulf spill?
1 gallon is 128 ounces or 16 glasses of water per gallon.
BP public admissions of Gulf oil spill >200,000,000 gallons of oil.
BP officially admits to spilling over 3,200,000,000 glasses of oil.
That’s 4,800,000,000,000 oil molecules per glass when mixed and independent estimates put the flow rate MUCH higher (the coast guard typically seems to lie by an order of magnitude), not to mention that the thing is still “seeping” along with other wells in the gulf including 8 wells owned by Taylor Energy that have been leaking since Ivan in 2004 and this group is just over ten miles off the coast and not a deep water cluster.
1 cubic mile is about 10,000,000,000,000 gallons.
A gallon of gas weighs about 6.3 pounds 5.5 pounds of which is carbon.
Actually, a barrel of oil is 42 gallons. When the barrel is processed, you may get something like 15 gallons of gasoline, 9 gal. of fuel oil (See Gasoil / D2), 10 gal. of jet fuel (Kerosene) and 4 gal of other “heavy” products such as lubricants, grease, asphalt / bitumene and plastics and 4 gallons of lighter condensates/naphtha.
In energy equivalents, 1 barrel=42 gallons of oil is estimated to be around 19.5 gallons of gas (natural gas) so this is a very loose estimate.
The Earth’s water is about 330,000,000 cubic miles in volume.
Carbon is the tenth most common element in normal seawater at 132,000 tons per cubic mile.
200,000,000 gallons of oil would have loosely 1,100,000,000 pounds or 550,000 tons of carbon.
That would add over 3 pounds of carbon per gallon of Earth’s water by admission and more likely around 30 pounds and growing additional carbon per each gallon of Earth’s water from this one event.
There have been plenty of others.
From the early 1970s through the ’90s, offshore rigs and pipelines averaged about four spills per year of at least 50 barrels, according to the Minerals Management Service (MMS). One barrel is equal to 42 gallons. The average annual total surged to more than 17 from 2000 through 2009. From 2005 through 2009, spills averaged 22 a year.
The spills — and the amount of oil that leaked — grew markedly worse even when taking increases in production into account, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows. The leaks came as the oil industry repeatedly claimed that offshore drilling was never safer.
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