Que me dice del reportaje de Time?
3 mil aves contra 400 mil del Exxon? cientos de kimolmetros de costa afectados en Alaska, aqui ya vemos como estan limpias y abiertas al turismo como dice Michelle Obama...
Most ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ them do not think it is safe to eat local seafood.
More than a third report children with new rashes or breathing problems, or who are nervous, fearful or “very sad” since the spill began. And even though the gusher ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ oil has been stanched, almost a quarter ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ residents still fear that they will have to move.
Those are some ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the findings ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the first major survey ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Gulf Coast residents conducted since the BP well was capped. The survey, conducted from July 19 to 25 by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Mailman School ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Public Health at Columbia University, suggests that the spill’s effects have not been contained along with the oil itself.
“There’s been a very overt effort by BP and the Coast Guard to project a sense that the crisis is over, but this is far from the case,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the center and president ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Children’s Health Fund, a sponsor ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the survey. “Our survey shows a persistent and overwhelming level ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ anxiety among families living near the coast, driven by both medical symptoms in their children as well as a substantial level ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ psychological stress.”
The survey included 1,200 coastal residents in Louisiana and Mississippi, most ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ whom live within 10 miles ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the ocean.
One in five reported that their household income had dropped since the spill. Forty-three percent said they had been directly exposed to oil, either at beaches, on their property or in helping with the cleanup. Those who had been exposed were more than twice as likely to report that their children had developed physical or mental health problems since the spill. Also, families that had more concerns about their children’s mental health were more likely to report that they are considering moving.
One respondent, Shannon Drury, a mother ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ four in Venice, La., said her husband, a commercial fisherman, had been working for BP but was owed six weeks’ pay. For a time after the spill, Ms. Drury was forced to find work as a houseboat cleaner, coming home exhausted at night.
Ms. Drury’s 11-year-old daughter has grown more insecure, she said. Another child has developed a mysterious rash that Ms. Drury suspects is infected. Tensions over money, she said, reminded her ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the warning from a visiting speaker from Alaska, who said the divorce rate there had skyrocketed after the Exxon Valdez disaster.
“I realize what the woman was talking about now, because it puts different strains on your family from what you’ve been used to,” Ms. Drury said.
Another survey respondent, Sherry Mareno, 39, a Buras, La., fisherman who lost her job after the spill, is trying to sell her house and leave the Gulf Coast. She and her 11-year-old son both developed serious skin rashes, and she blames the chemical dispersants used to fight the oil.
“Mentally it’s putting a strain on me and my whole family,” said Ms. Mareno, a mother ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ two whose husband, a fisherman, also lost his job. “I’m just ready to get my family out ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ here.”
Dr. Redlener acknowledged that it was difficult to pinpoint which ailments were related to the spill, but he said the researchers had made an effort to be conservative. The study excluded any children who had emotional or behavioral problems before the spill from its calculation that 19 percent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ children had developed such problems.
It is not clear how much money is available to pay for mental health treatment for parents and children. Kenneth Feinberg, who is administering the BP claims process, has said mental health claims will not be covered. BP is considering requests from Mississippi and Louisiana for $39 million to cover mental health treatment through October 2011. Ms. Drury said that her church was starting a family counseling program, but that she had not had any other offers ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ help.
Physical health problems will be covered under the claims process, a spokesman for BP said.
Governor Jindal won praise for both his handling ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the spill and for his trustworthiness, with 78 percent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Louisiana residents saying they trusted him “a great deal” or “a good amount.” He was trailed by local officials (75 percent), the Coast Guard (73 percent) and, among Mississippians, Governor Barbour (58 percent). Forty-eight percent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the respondents said they trusted Mr. Obama, and 31 percent said they trusted BP officials.
The survey showed some other differences in attitudes between Mississippi and Louisiana. In Louisiana, fewer than half ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the participants said they thought it was not safe to eat gulf seafood. But in Mississippi, where the seafood industry is smaller, three-quarters were ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the opinion that local seafood was not safe. Mississippi families were more likely to have cut back on beach trips and fishing than Louisiana families.
Fewer than 5 percent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the respondents said they had received any compensation from BP.
The teams have found 492 dead sea turtles, which is unfortunate, but ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ 17 were visibly oiled; otherwise, they have found ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ one other dead reptile in the entire Gulf.
Jaja, ahora va a decir que Time es muy irresponsable por medir asi la afectacion.
Entienda, no soy yo, es un reportaje de Time para medir el verdadero impacto, las aves son un indicativo de la afectacion a la fauna, ve las diferencias abismales? Simplemente no hay comparacion.
Asi como las 3000 aves se tiene contados 3 delfines...y que mas?
Ok ahi està la lista, si hay mas animales muertos ya no los encontraron, ese fue el conteo que se hizo para medir el impacto en la fauna...desastre?
Solo en los molinos de viento mueren mas aves que en este "desastre": 7000 al año.
Ah y no son inventos mios, visite el link.
Weeks ago, before engineers pumped in mud and cement to plug the gusher, scientists began finding specks ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ oil in crab larvae plucked from waters across the Gulf coast.
The government said last week that three-quarters ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the spilled oil has been removed or naturally dissipated from the water. But the crab larvae discovery was an ominous sign that crude had already infiltrated the Gulf's vast food web - and could affect it for years to come.
"It would suggest the oil has reached a position where it can start moving up the food chain instead ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ just hanging in the water," said Bob Thomas, a biologist at Loyola University in New Orleans. "Something likely will eat those oiled larvae ... and then that animal will be eaten by something bigger and so on."
Tiny creatures might take in such low amounts ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ oil that they could survive, Thomas said. But those at the top ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the chain, such as dolphins and tuna, could get fatal "megadoses."
Marine biologists routinely gather shellfish for study. Since the spill began, many ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the crab larvae collected have had the distinctive orange oil droplets, said Harriet Perry, a biologist with the University ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
"In my 42 years ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ studying crabs I've never seen this," Perry said.
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She wouldn't estimate how much ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the crab larvae are contaminated overall, but said about 40 percent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the area they are known to inhabit has been affected by oil from the spill.
Tulane University researchers are investigating whether the splotches also contain toxic chemical dispersants that were spread to break up the oil but have reached no conclusions, biologist Caz Taylor said.
If large numbers ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ blue crab larvae are tainted, their population is virtually certain to take a hit over the next year and perhaps longer, scientists say.
How large the die-off would be is unclear, Perry said. An estimated 207 million gallons ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ oil have spewed into the Gulf since an April 20 drilling rig explosion triggered the spill, and thousands ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ gallons ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ dispersant chemicals have been dumped.
Scientists will be focusing on crabs because they're a "keystone species" that play a crucial role in the food web as both predator and prey, Perry said.
Ok entonces segun herrera, hay que decirle a Time que "entienda de una vez".En serio usted es un caso unico, entienda, de una vez que no puede medir en estos momentos los verdaderos alcances de este problema
de eso se trata precisamente, de ver si este es " el peor desastre de la historia" como dijo Obama.No se pueden comparar los derrames,
y para algunos artistas, los derrames en un barco son tan faciles como "tapar el hueco y ya"...
Yo lo que hice fue reproducir lo mismo que publicó Time...Sea un poco mas serio en las cosas no haga perder tanto tiempo en solo tonteras
Le repito y le digo a ver si entiende, usted quiere hacer comparaciones, con un desarrame ampliamente documentado,
But it has also been fed by continued discoveries ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ oil clumped in marshes, stratified underneath fresh sand or exposed in the surf at low tide. These sightings do not contradict the scientific reports, which acknowledge millions ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ gallons ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ residual oil, but they fuel a broadly held fear: that the oil is merely hidden, liable to appear in a thick, brown ooze at any time.
Federal scientists and coastal residents agree in at least one respect: that the long-term effects ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the spill are unknown, and that it is too early to make any conclusions about the true scale ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the damage. That uncertainty leads to perhaps the most potent source ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ skepticism: a deep anxiety about the region’s economic future.
The anxiety begins in the short term. Billions ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ dollars have poured into the gulf during the response, supporting coastal communities that have had a dreary summer but also enriching contractors involved in the cleanup. Any news ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ dissipating oil hints at a looming end to that.
BP has promised full compensation, but that has not stopped officials and residents from pursuing lawsuits or seeking billions more in restoration payments.
Just as the problems were being ironed out in the Vessels ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Opportunity program, which had left many hurting commercial fishermen on the outside, recoverable oil started disappearing on the surface.
Plenty are worried that there will be no revenue to take the program’s place as it wraps up.
“Even if it is true,” Mr. Barisich said ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the reports ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ dissipating oil, “and I can go catch some shrimp right now, I can’t sell it. I don’t have a dealer or processor who can take it right now.”
Commercial fishing waters are being opened all along the coast, which can be done ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ with the approval ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Food and Drug Administration and after a variety ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ tests. But many fishermen, who early on were angered at what they saw as premature closings ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ water where little oil was visible, are now among the most concerned that the waters are being opened too quickly.
The perception ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ healthy seafood is nearly as important for the business as the reality, and reassuring consumers can be a long and tricky process.
“Alaska, it took them almost five years to overcome their perception challenges,” said Ewell Smith, the executive director ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.
And while BP has recently highlighted its efforts to speed up the claims process, more than two-thirds ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ claims have not been paid, mostly because adjusters are waiting on documentation that may be hard to come by for many in the largely cash-driven fishing business.
But the economic worries still come back to a fundamental disagreement: many residents simply do not believe that the oil is going away anytime soon, whatever scientists are saying.
“Smell that?” asked Forrest A. Travirca III, driving along the beach at Port Fourchon, La., on Monday. He climbed out ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ his cart and waded into the surf, where low tide had exposed mud flats, thick and dark with oil to a depth ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ three inches. The sight could be found up and down the beach.
Mr. Travirca, the field inspector for the Edward Wisner Donation, a nonprofit land trust, said that the oil had probably accumulated since late May, left by subcontracted cleanup crews that had done an incomplete job.
Both BP and federal response officials repeat that the cleanup will not be over until the beaches and marshes are clean, and that crews will not leave until local officials are satisfied. Mr. Travirca said the cleanup had been improving and gave high marks to the Coast Guard.
But the oil-caked mud flats provoked concern about the oil that may be unseen, buried all along the beach or sitting on the seabed offshore. Federal scientists said they had found that oil was not gathering on the floor ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the gulf, but Mr. Travirca said he had a hard time believing that.
Fishermen are also keenly concerned about shrimp, crab and finfish larvae. If the larvae are in jeopardy, it may not be known until future fishing seasons, even after the cleanup ends.
Scientists have found hydrocarbons and possibly dispersant in samples ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ crab and fish larvae, but say that it is premature to draw any conclusions about the long-term effects.
That uncertainty is not reassuring, and to many here it is, in its own way, proof ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ deception. Response officials acknowledge that the use ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ dispersants was a trade-off, exposing marine life to risk but preventing a thorough oiling ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the beaches and fragile marshes. And for such a huge spill, it has had a relatively small coastal impact.
But others say it was also convenient that the dispersant kept most ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the oil out ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ public view.
“I think probably in the long term the application ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the dispersants, at least at the wellhead, probably was the right thing to do,” said Dr. William E. Hawkins, director ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the University ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Southern Mississippi. “But cynically I might say BP might have done it for the wrong reasons.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/us/05gulf.html?ref=gulf_of_mexico_2010
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22-mile-long oily plume mapped near BP site - Disaster in the Gulf - msnbc.com
No es "el Times", sino Time magazine....
Si tiene algun cuestionamiento al reportaje pongalo, nadie esta diciendo que es el dueño de la verdad, sino no venga a ventearsela.
Para los cerdos capitalistas... que en el fondo son facistas y ultraderechistas
El mundo es un plato del cual hay que servirse... un bufet todo incluido
De todas formas, lo que pase no importa, por que nosotros los humanos somos tan capcaces y avanzados que cuando este planeta se vaya a la mierda ya tendremos tecnologia para ir a destruir otro
Y nos convertiremos en la clase de plaga que vinimos a ser
O SEA Y DESPUES QUIEREN QUE A UNO LE GUSTE VIVIR