Ocean Current & Oil Prediction [Video]
 

Drill baby, drill.

Whoops...

this comes with a story from Newsweek.

We're fucked.

Fuck that!

it appears to be heading towards BP's corporate headquarters.

Yes,....

I wonder what the Queen's thoughts are.

I had planned on going to Myrtle Beach during July. I think that trip is off now.

indeed. perhaps she can stoop to a level of actually doing something

holy shit, once it rounds Florida that gunk just takes the fuck off doesn't it? or at least thats what's predicted. I really hope that is wrong

I get the feeling these forecast models are going to get worse as time goes on.

I can't even imagine this thing if it continues for 6 months or more. This is just sickening.

I think the oil slick will eventually spell out "We're all Fucked" :(

If reality was a Twilight Zone episode then this man made catastrophe would be the ironic catalyst for the fulfillment of the 2012 Doomsday predictions.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm from New Orleans, but in boston for the moment. Most people up here dont seem to care or know about it.

"If this latest attempt to stop the oil flow fails, some engineers are suggesting using a nuclear device to blow-out the well. Believe it or not, this method has been used before, by the Soviet Union. In four out of five uses, a small, low-yield device successfully stopped a major oil leak."

Situation looks dire at 132 days.

:Oh crap

This is not a solution and has already been debunked by one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists, Michio Kaku. Nuking that leak will kill everyone in that region.

Yeah, me too.

One of the things that has worried me is the oil in the atlantic current. It's so important for regulating earths temperature, going north, chilling, falling to the ocean floor, looping back south, warming, repeating.

Oil is a temperature regulator in itself. It's going to try to maintain whatever temperature it starts out at. How is this going to screw with the already bad problem of the ice not forming as quickly? It can't help.

I heard last night that the oil will become hot and stay hot. Much hotter than the ocean water. I guess because it's so dense and black, it absorbs all that heat from the sun.

Climate change is already seriously tied to the mid atlantic current. If that thing stops, the weather patterns are fubar.

so many unknowns or who knows or dont worry's.

Yeah... I know, I've been trying to get as much of the scientific opinions as I can off tv, but there aren't many yet. They all agree, we have no idea wtf this is going to do.

As the oil goes north, which it will do. And it passes into the northern seas. It will disperse salt water and fresh water, mixing them together and making it so the northern oceans don't freeze. All because of weight. This will slow down the circulation of salt water, which is bad.

Something like 8k years ago, fresh water was introduced into the currents when an ice bridge broke (very quickly) currents slowed down, salt and fresh water was displaced, etc.. The result, well... like 1300 years of freezing temperatures, no summers, no seasons from about Mexico north.