The BP Oil Plume

Cosmic Variance
By John Conway
Aug 20, 2010 8:55 PMMay 17, 2019 9:05 PM

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This past week has seen a lot of news stories about a "Manhattan-sized" plume of oil found in the Gulf of Mexico by researchers near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon well. This sent my BS detector into the yellow zone, so I have been trying to get a better idea of just how much oil remains in the Gulf from this disaster. It's definitely not gone.

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