morningstar: Deaths of Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico Underestimated Rob Williams, who was at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada when he did the research, has tried to estimate how many deaths have been missed. Recovered carcasses are “the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “We need a way to estimate the size of the iceberg.” It’s well-known that recovered carcasses are only a fraction of total deaths, says Stan Senner, a director of the Ocean Conservancy in Austin, Texas. The statements on the government’s website “bend over backward to imply the opposite”, he says. In recent months 87 dead bottlenose dolphins have washed up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, half of them infants or stillborn fetuses. The government is probing the deaths, but scientists involved in the investigation have been told to keep their results confidential. So we don’t know what caused the deaths, but Williams points out that the stillborn calves would have been conceived around the time of the spill. The human deaths and chronic illnesses introduced to the region as a result of this disaster are massively under-reported as well. Workers in the cleanup operations are starting to die, one man dropped dead while cashing his paycheck from BP (do a simple web search for “gulf oil clean death” or something of that nature). The mainstream media blackout on this issue is the scariest part. Reblog, reblog, reblog.

morningstar:

Deaths of Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico Underestimated

Rob Williams, who was at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada when he did the research, has tried to estimate how many deaths have been missed. Recovered carcasses are “the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “We need a way to estimate the size of the iceberg.”

It’s well-known that recovered carcasses are only a fraction of total deaths, says Stan Senner, a director of the Ocean Conservancy in Austin, Texas. The statements on the government’s website “bend over backward to imply the opposite”, he says.

In recent months 87 dead bottlenose dolphins have washed up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, half of them infants or stillborn fetuses. The government is probing the deaths, but scientists involved in the investigation have been told to keep their results confidential. So we don’t know what caused the deaths, but Williams points out that the stillborn calves would have been conceived around the time of the spill.

The human deaths and chronic illnesses introduced to the region as a result of this disaster are massively under-reported as well. Workers in the cleanup operations are starting to die, one man dropped dead while cashing his paycheck from BP (do a simple web search for “gulf oil clean death” or something of that nature). The mainstream media blackout on this issue is the scariest part.

Reblog, reblog, reblog.

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