NOAA's Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil is still in the golf ...

[directfiesta]

He was the one with the report saying it was mostly gone ...


Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the NOAA, appeared before Congress to repudiate an earlier report he wrote, which suggested the majority of the oil had been captured

White House claims that the worst of the BP oil spill was over were undermined yesterday when a senior government scientist said three-quarters of the oil was still in the Gulf environment and a research study detected a 22-mile plume of oil in the ocean depths.

Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) departed from an official report from two weeks ago which suggested the majority of the oil had been captured or broken down.

"I would say most of that is still in the environment," Lehr, the lead author of the report, told the house energy and commerce committee.

The growing evidence that the White House painted an overly optimistic picture when officials claimed two weeks ago the remaining oil in the Gulf was rapidly breaking down fuelled a sense of outrage in the scientific community that government agencies are hiding data and spinning the science of the oil spill. No new oil has entered the Gulf since 15 July, but officials said yesterday the well is unlikely to be sealed for good until mid-September.


no links since I only post truth &facts ... lol ...

[Caligari]

yep, the shit just magically vanished. the majority of the oil from that spill will be in the gulf for years fucking everything up.

[Sly]

[jalami]

Shouldn't that be refudiate? LOLOLOL

[directfiesta]

Originally Posted by jalami

Shouldn't that be refudiate? LOLOLOL

lol ... let me check twitter .....