[Coral-List] NY Times: Oil in Gulf Poses Only Slight Risk, New US Report Says

[Lynn Davidson]

Can we get back to science here?  I don't think calling environmental activists "Brown Shirts" or Nazis is appropriate in this forum. 

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On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:37 PM, "Ted Morris" <easy501 at zianet.com> wrote:

> Do you have anything on which to base your implication that we cannot trust
> Dr. Lubchenco?  Or is it simply because she is the director of NOAA, and you
> disagree with anything the government says?
> 
> This is a forum for coral reef science, not a sounding board from political
> rants.  Unfortunately, Orwellian conspiracy is insufficient to end this
> thread.  Therefore, I invoke Godwin's Law:  "Greenpeace is like a pack of
> Brown Shirts when they've got an axe to grind."
> 
> There.  It's over.  Take it somewhere else, Milton.
> 
> Ted Morris,
> Interested Amateur.
> 
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> Subject: [Coral-List] NY Times: Oil in Gulf Poses Only Slight Risk, New US
> Report Says
> 
> Today in the NY Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/earth/04oil.html?th&emc=th.
> 
> The 64 million dollar question is can we trust this expert report?
> 
> Who contributed the evidence to support the findings in this report?
> 
> Same goes for the expected "earlier lifting" of ban on offshore oil
> exploration.
> 
> This is 2010, but it makes me think of "1984", where "doublespeak" and
> "doublethink' ruled supreme.
> 
> Are there any reports from scientists or coral reef or marine research
> organizations, institutes or networks which corroborate or refute these
> findings?
> 
> 
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