Well, it seems we've got yet another national outrage on our hands as USA Today reports that: "Scientists who were aboard two research vessels studying the Gulf of Mexico oil spill's impact on sea life have found substantial amounts of oil on the seafloor, contradicting statements by federal officials that the oil had largely disappeared." Frankly, I find myself marveling that this is even news anymore when nearly every NOAA report or announcement (the letters stand for No Oil Around Anywhere) is immediately proven false. Anybody else see a pattern here? This time, according to USA Today, the direct contradiction comes as "... the research ship Cape Hatteras found oil in samples dug up from the seafloor in a 140-mile radius around the site of the Macondo well." The chief scientist on the research expedition was Kevin Yeager, a University of Southern Mississippi assistant professor of marine sciences. Oil found in samples ranged from light degraded oil to thick raw crude, Yeager told the newspaper. "Clearly, there appears to be vast volumes of oil present on the seafloor," Yeager said in the story. "We saw considerable evidence of it." The government, of course, continues its increasingly pathetic denial campaign. Just last week, ...
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