The Oil Drum – Natural Oil Seeps and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster: A Comparison of Magnitudes

Some reports in the media attempt to down­play the sig­nif­i­cance of the release of oil from the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon acci­dent by argu­ing that nat­ural oil seeps release large vol­umes of oil to the ocean, so why worry? Lets look at the numbers.

via The Oil Drum – Nat­ural Oil Seeps and the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon Dis­as­ter: A Com­par­i­son of Mag­ni­tudes. Just in case you were crazy enough to lis­ten to Rep. Young.

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