About global warming

The underwater gusher of crude from the BP rig wreckage in the Gulf is becoming the greatest oil spill disaster the U.S. has ever suffered. The flow from the Deep water Horizon well could be essentially unstoppable for months. Richard Harris asked scientists to analyze a video of the oil billowing from the ocean floor pipe and they calculated "an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day." The N Y Times also reported on scientists whose estimates are four to five times higher. At the rate of 50-70,000 barrels a day, the BP spew already is more than five times larger than the Valdez ship spill in Alaska in 1989. Oil slick and tar balls have begun to reach the rich and irreplaceable marshland of the Mississippi Delta and beaches on Alabama's Dolphin Island. The most important fishery in the nation has been shut down. The growing slick has been moving west beyond the mouth of the Mississippi R., but the crude is expected to eventually foul beaches which create billions of dollars in tourism around the Gulf. Florida's beaches are estimated to be worth $19 billion a year to the state's economy. Lets try to save earth.