Hiding “Avian Mortality”: Where ‘Green’ is Red (Part I: Altamont Pass)

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The oil spilled between 1900 and today would cover an area of over 3,000 square miles an inch deep in crude.

Compared to what the fossil fuel industry is doing to life on this planet, they WILL be saving us.

How does that compare to the volume of seepage of oil and nat gas NATURALLY from just the Gulf of Mexico ???

And --- you really need to SUBTRACT for some things I'm SURE you've never considered.. Like for instance...

"OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION" - UC Santa Barbara News Release

Santa Barbara, Calif.) Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa
Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob.
The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling
occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara's oil seeps are thought to be among
the leakiest.

Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara
Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently
published peer-reviewed articles, one in November's Geology Magazine, the other in
the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.

The researchers state that the production rate of these naturally-occurring
reactive organic gases is equal to twice the emission rate from all the on-road
vehicle traffic in Santa Barbara County in 1990.

According to the articles, studies of the area around Platform Holly showed a 50
percent decrease in natural seepage over 22 years. The researchers show that as the
oil was pumped out the reservoir, pressure that drives the seepage dropped.
"If the decrease in natural seepage found near Platform Holly is representative of
the effect of oil production on seepage worldwide, then this has the potential to
significantly alter global oil and gas seepage in the future," state the
researchers in the article "The World's Most Spectacular Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps:
Quantification of Emissions " in the Sept. 14 issue of the Journal of Geological
Research - Oceans.

It's like I've been telling you.. If you want to sleep at night and NOT WORRY about all that calthrated gas up in the Arctic..
DRILL BABY DRILL.......

Works for fracking also.. Peoples faucet quit lighting up after a few years of extraction.. Get that shit out of there and there's no more natural seepage..

BTW --- this is about BIRDS.. And wind is NOT a direct substitute for oil .. It's not an either/or proposition.. Wind generates electricity (BADLY).. Doesn't replace gasoline..