According to this article, natural bacteria may be helping to clean up the oil in the Gulf...


Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says | Popular Science

 

They will be well fed for a long time...

What exactly is the microbes waste product?

 

Salt...

On Edit:
I'm only kidding.

 

How does hydrogen and carbon become chlorine and sodium???

 

I find it fascinating that mother earth knows how to clean herself off after such a disaster. Makes me wonder about the whole global warming thingie, and whether or not it's really something to worry ourselves over. Clearly mother nature knows how to handle things.

 

I personally think the human race is arrogant to think we can affect Mother Nature. If we truly were adversely affecting the natural balance, nature would take us out.

 

We can affect "Mother Nature" on a local level. For example: Haiti. They cut down trees to burn. This strips the land of top soil. Winds dry it out even further. After awhile nothing can grow and it becomes a barren wasteland.

Another example is the Waikoloa area of the Big Island. It used to be a forest many, many years ago. It was clear cut for grazing of cattle. It changed the entire climate of that part of the island. What used to be forest is now dry & barren with shrub grass. Wind now howls through that area and makes it a very arid, fire prone, useless land...even for grazing cattle!

They built a subdivision there that uses a ton of water to keep their tropical vegetation nice. With no natural rivers or streams on that side of the island, they must dig stuff up to put in water lines. Crazy.

Whoa...way off subject. Sorry. Point is: We CAN and DO affect the world around us. Although I do not believe in the global warming hype/BS. But that shouldn't stop us from being good stewards of the land...and seas.

Thank God for bacteria. It can save us from oil spills as well as alien attack. (War of the Worlds)

 

Ever heard of the Dust Bowl?

 

Haha I just watched that movie last night, no joke.