What In The World Is Going On In The Gulf Of Mexico?

The more that we learn about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the more we realize that there is a whole lot more going on than we have been told.  It just seems like things get more bizarre by the day.  So what do we know for sure?  Well, we do know that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has officially passed the Exxon Valdez disaster as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.  We also know that the environment along the Gulf coast is being absolutely devastated and that the American Dream is being absolutely destroyed for millions of Americans who live in the region.  But now there have been new revelations, which if true, mean that this nightmare is far worse than any of us imagined.

Not that this nightmare of an oil spill needs to get any worse.  ABC News correspondent Sam Champion and Philippe Cousteau Jr. recently took cameras down underneath the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to see what was really happening out there under the water and what they found was absolutely stunning….

But now there are new claims that the scope of this environmental disaster is ever worse than we could have dreamed.

Matt Simmons, an energy adviser to former president George W. Bush, recently went on national television and claimed that ”there’s another leak, much bigger, 5 to 6 miles away” from the leaking riser and blowout preventer which we’ve all been watching on the underwater cameras….

So could Simmons possibly be right?

The truth is that we just do not know at this point.

But for such a high ranking former member of the U.S. government to make a claim like this is extraordinary. 

Someone in an official position should either debunk the claims being made by Simmons or should confirm them.

But the real nightmare in all of this may be the incredibly toxic dispersant that BP has been using in the Gulf of Mexico.

A dire report prepared for Russian President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning that the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history.

Why?

Well, the Russian scientists that authored the report claim that BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 may cause an environmental nightmare of unprecedented magnitude.

You see, this dispersal agent, which is being pumped directly into the leak over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico, is four times more toxic than oil.  In fact, it is one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever created.

So not only will the millions of gallons of this dispersal agent be an absolute nightmare for the Gulf, it will also be an absolute nightmare for wherever this water is carried.

An article on the website of The European Union Times recently explained exactly what this could mean for the eastern half of North America….

A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America.

Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”.

Are you starting to get the picture?

Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to declare that Washington is “in charge” and is pledging to do whatever is necessary to “shut this down”.

But these days it seems like anything that Washington is “in charge” of ends up becoming an even bigger mess.

Let’s pray that someone can find a way to stop this leak and that the danger from this dispersal agent is not nearly as bad as the Russian scientists are suggesting.

But as we sit here today things look like they are rapidly going from bad to worse.

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