Below is some confused, strange chatter from FOX News on the oil leak, which will be parroted by Republicans in Congress and entertainment radio talk show hosts.\u00a0 “Where’s the oil?”\u00a0 FOX host Brit Hume can’t see it. This nonsense, this doubt-planting on every single environmental topic of the last 10+\u00a0 years, just\u00a0 spreads and spreads among conservatives with soap boxes, to the point where the American people are no longer concerned about global warming much at all.\u00a0\u00a0 They used to be, before the denial movement started happening, funded by big oil and big coal and driven by GOP talking points. \u00a0 Now these members of the “news media” are even denying there is much oil from this oil spill, when even some British Petroleum estimates were up to 70,000 gallons a day. Is there any hope that we can get serious climate action\u00a0 — ever? — with this type of propaganda and ignorance masquerading as “news” discussion?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read more of the story here. It’s hard to believe, but this “news host”,\u00a0 Brit Hume,\u00a0 would have us believe that most oil in the ocean is from “seepage” and that makes this oil spill somehow less significant. \u00a0 It’s no wonder that people of this political persuasion (the right-wing extremist kind) has no respect for facts, logic or science. It’s enough to infuriate anyone. \u00a0 Talk to people on the coast of Florida, Mr. Hume, and tell me if they are ever concerned about “seepage”, or whether they think the ocean can just somehow absorb this oil. \u00a0 The ocean is not a sponge for oil and other garbage humans dump into it. \u00a0 It used to be a dependable carbon sink, but even that is changing.\u00a0\u00a0 This oil spill is now threatening the barrier reef off the coast of Florida, and it’s threatening the shores of Cuba, and Hume can’t\u00a0 see it. So therefore, it must not be very bad.\u00a0 That exemplifies FOX News about as well as anything.<\/p>\n
The saddest thing of all is that this oil leak is not the only huge threat to the Atlantic ocean, not even to the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Chemicals and pesticide runoff leading to the Gulf “dead zone”, overfishing, military sonar, and ocean acidification were already threatening the oceans before the sunken oil rig was built.<\/p>\n
They\u00a0 are just now seeing the first tar balls off the shores of Key West, but people claim they can’t be sure where they come from. Are tar balls commonly found off the shores of Key West? Of course not.\u00a0 So, these must be from somewhere.\u00a0 Hmmm, what just happened that might have caused them to appear?\u00a0\u00a0 The currents are already picking up the oil and moving it around right off the coast of Florida. This will be a catastrophe for the local and state economies, and what will all those people in the tourism industry do when they lose their jobs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Below is some confused, strange chatter from FOX News on the oil leak, which will be parroted by Republicans in Congress and entertainment radio talk show hosts.\u00a0 “Where’s the oil?”\u00a0 FOX host Brit Hume can’t see it. This nonsense, this … Continue reading