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Good point, Warren. I don't believe there's a word to adequately convey the magnitude of what happened here. "Spill" is what happens when I knock over my glass of Cabernet. This is not that, and what's happened in the Gulf isn't a "mishap" or "error," either. It's a horror, a grievous disaster, and an unmitigated tragedy. That it may not be a crime in no way reflects any lessening of its severity, only decades of governmental indifference to environmental concerns.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: whayman@roadrunner.com<br>To: starbliss@gmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:51:20 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] "Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills" 168 Responses<br><br>
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<div>I think we should try to keep our vocabulary in line with actuality. The
Gulf oil disaster/irruption is not a spill. Such a term possibly reflects a
misunderstanding of both magnitude and geology.</div>
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<li><a title="View all posts in Climate Science" href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/category/climate-science/" rel="category tag">Climate Science</a></li></ul>— david @ 16 June 2010 </div>
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That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from
fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and
oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the
environment than it is as CO<sub>2</sub> (although CO<sub>2</sub> may be more
damaging on geologic time scales). But think of it — five thousand spills like
in the Gulf of Mexico, all going at once, each releasing 40,000 barrels a day,
every day for decades and centuries on end. We are burning a lot of
carbon!<BR></div>
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