BP oil spill caused by methane bubble?

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Post by WCSally » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:27 pm

I don't know about Hawk';s Cafe ... but I do know there is some interesting posting on ATS about water and it's deliberate ruination by the Gov boys and other things ... Like the Nevada Test Site being over several deep aqua-firs ... and the radiation being in the Millions of picorads. (sp?)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 172256.htm
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journa ... orialboard May 28th 2010
Anartctic: -- I guess they are confident of non-contamination .. somehow.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 091825.htm

Now correct me if I mis-reason, but did we not just get fast tracked into the space race after we did this Nevada devastation?
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Post by WCSally » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:31 pm

StevenJay wrote:Meanwhile (I watched this a couple weeks ago), amidst all of the finger-pointing and worthless speculation, these two experienced "hayseed" problem-solvers are being completely ignored (no surprise). Am I missing something? I think not. This, like virtually every war being fought, isn't meant to be "won," merely prolonged as possible for whatever nefarious agenda.

Was it caused intentionally? Who knows. Is it being played like a royal flush? You frillin' betcha. :evil:
The video was removed from You Tube for ?violations? ... is it anywhere else?
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Post by WCSally » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:54 pm

I just had a very odd thought ... if the Earth is warming .. not from us --- but from Galactic forces which are warming all the planets in the entire solar system as we cross galactic ecliptic .... (even if it is the local fluff)

Could that "heating" not only be in the atmosphere where we feel it ... but at depth? .. where the planet feels it ... and worse where liquid plasma fields .. like the hydrocarbon deposits .... are affected by it ... ????

I mean we have gas (methane) causing issues all over the place .. Norway, Pennsylvania, Gulf of Mexico, who knows where else? >>... .... .... I have not Googled .....

What if this is just the Earth reacting to crossing the ecliptic of the galaxy where all the north and south forces cancel out --- (and ALL that energy which gets canceled out HAS to go somewhere ... right ... does not just vanoosh into the AEther (I don't think it does..... not being AEther-esque to start with).)

Is this a symptom, and do we need to take precautions? ... We have a few more years of this journey to finish up before we are even south side to the point we are north of center now (and who knows what forces lie down south, like Hawaii and the Great Red Spot?)???
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Post by lizzie » Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:18 am

WCSally said: I just had a very odd thought ... if the Earth is warming .. not from us --- but from Galactic forces which are warming all the planets in the entire solar system as we cross galactic ecliptic .... (even if it is the local fluff)
Well certainly no one will dispute the natural Earth changes. IMHO, no one reported on those better than Dr. Alexey Dmitriev back in 1998:

http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global ... ical1.html
We will list the recent large-scale events in the Solar System in order to fully understand, and comprehend, the PlanetoPhysical transformations taking place.
However, I’m suggesting that there is an elite criminal enterprise who owns the virtual patented secret technologies (action from a distance) that allows them to manufacture wars and natural disasters and eliminate all the evidence as they go along.

They have their own “supply chain companies” to “spoilate” the crime scene and remove all physical evidence; they have their own mind-controlled assassination squads to eliminate their targets; and it’s all being done to commit massive stock and insurance fraud. It’s the perfect way to infiltrate and take over host governments and to "bore from within."

Nothing is more profitable to an elite criminal enterprise that the “spoils of war” and payouts of insurance policies due to catastrophic loses (either natural or manufactured). And if Mother Nature won’t accommodate them, then they are perfectly willing to “give her a boost.” It's the ultimate in "false flag" terrorism as the terrorist acts are usually scripted so that they can be blamed on the appropriate "hostile nation states", fundamentalist religious groups or "evil" corporate entities which in this case is BP.

After all the myths state that Atlantis did not sink as a result of a natural catastrophe, but due to human arrogance through the misuse of her “crystal technology” (perhaps a solar powered gravity wave generator -- probably their version of HAARP). Our free Masonic rulers want to initiate a “New Atlantis” where high technology is not only king but done through "occult black magic" (scalar technology).

Here are some examples of secret patented technologies that could be used to manufacture both “natural catastrophes” and/or to commit terrorist acts such as sabotage to oil rigs. Most people will blame BP; but I’d certainly like to gain access to the real (not virtual) stock manipulations and insurance payouts both before and after the “incident”.

You know the old saying: Cui bono (who benefits) and “follow the money”

http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... 285#p36041

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Post by lizzie » Sun Jun 06, 2010 1:18 pm

What if they owned the patent rights to the following secret technologies? If people don’t know such technologies exist, how could anyone even begin to investigate such misuse?

http://www.briansbetterworld.com/articl ... Lights.htm
Consequently, such UFO "experts" are abysmally ignorant of the fact that existing advanced covert terrestrial technology encompasses:

1. Superluminal antigravitic craft.

2. Ships and discoid flying craft possessing teleportation capabilities.

3. The ability for humans to appear invisible under daylight conditions.

4. The manufacture of small levitating orbs that exhibit an amber glow.

5. The regeneration of severed human and other mammalian limbs without recourse to stem cell therapy (US Patent 4,455,302).

6. Ambient energy powered non polluting highway vehicles.

7. Subliminal control of a victim's mind (thought implantation) at a distance by means of psychoacoustic devices.

8. A means of instantaneous telecommunication regardless of distance without the creation of electromagnetic radiation.

9. The capability of flash freezing the inhabitants of an entire city by means of longitudinally pulsed waves.

10. The symbiotic flight control of aircraft.

11. The ability to make physical objects disappear into an engineered black hole.

12. The cross breeding of dissimilar species, e.g. mammals and reptiles through electronic manipulation of their Meissner fields.

13. The rapid creation of complex crop circles.

14. The image simulation of large flying saucers by means of clear atomic light projection.

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Post by WCSally » Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:26 pm

Lizzie, you are talking about the race which seeded this planet long ago! Those things are part of their heritage. (like the Superman movie)

Yeah, I think all those things are possible, but not from tech we developed. Yet they exist.

We have no moral high ground against such things when we fall to their level and copy their ways!!

WHY were the Jews delivered "with a strong arm"? .... they were righteous people who kept the laws.

If / When --- The People get their act together and make the day a good one for each and every -- then perhaps the entire planet will be delivered with a strong arm and a sword not of this world.

In the meantime, spread hope, and random acts of kindness ... not bad thoughts which drag every mind down to the level of the evil you see around you ... and besides, if they don't know we are watching they are so much easier to watch!
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Post by WCSally » Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:28 pm

... from a friend via Facebook:
'The Day the Sea Burned' as a small rise in ocean temp at deep levels of 2 degrees releases all methane stored on sea bed. That is the absolute tipping point of no return. If we can understand what influences are causing what then we can at least do our best instead of doing the our worst.
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Post by junglelord » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:05 pm

Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag
http://www.infowars.com/evidence-points ... alse-flag/

- Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand

- Halliburton (see link), took acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion

- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment

- Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk

Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured.

On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control companies.

The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War.

The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into “possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law”

Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.

Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.

As the New York Times noted on May 26th, “BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options,”

Workers from the rig and company officials have said that hours before the explosion, gases were leaking through the cement, which had been set in place by the oil services contractor, Halliburton. Investigators have said these leaks were the likely cause of the explosion.”

According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.

Another intriguing connection Boots and Coots has to the Deepwater Horizon explosion comes via Pat Campbell, the man BP has employed to cap the well beneath the ruined rig. Campbell worked for Boots and Coots as general manager for many years.

BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. It seems that the company is taking all the flack for the spill while the Halliburton link is being roundly ignored.

BP’s prepared testimony briefing, which has since leaked online, also intriguingly notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion.

“the extent of these modifications is unknown at this time” states the report on page 37.

Possible prior knowledge of the explosion is also evident via huge dumping of stocks and shares in the weeks and days prior to the incident.

Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million.

Other asset management firms also sold huge blocks of BP stock in the first quarter. Though the amounts pale in comparison to Goldman’s holdings, Wachovia, owned by Wells Fargo, sold 98% of its shares in BP and Swiss bank UBS sold 97% of its BP shares.

Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.

In the days before the Deepwater explosion, Obama had announced a new effort to explore for and lease new drilling locations in the deep Gulf and in Alaska. In the wake of the disaster, these plans have been cancelled and BP is taking a PR bashing.

All of which has been capitalized on by the Obama administration to reinvigorate talk of a carbon tax and has created the opportunity to reintroduce the idea of nationalizing oil, which the Democratic leadership has long sought.

The full story of what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico is yet to emerge, there are rumours of more spills and an ongoing coverup. The site represents a $2.2 trillion source of wealth and power, a motive along with a plethora of suspicious activity that needs to be investigated further.
Well thats quite the can of worms and I for one do not believe the official story as the whole story.
If you use the link to the original site, you will get many good and valuable links within this story.
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Post by GaryN » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:52 pm

I am also surprised that no mainstream media have published anything about the natural seeps in the Gulf. At first I thought BP would have issued statements about how oil was always entering the gulf from seeps, no big deal, then I realised that if they did that, it would perhaps be an admission that oil is so plentiful that you can't stop it coming out, which would then lead to the truth that oil is constantly being produced within the earth, that there will never be a 'peak oil' problem, and thus send oil back to its $20 /BBL real value. I have E-Mailed a few MSM sites with info on the natural seeps/volcanoes, but have had no replies.
This morning I saw an article about oil gushing from the seafloor over 100 miles away from the rig, and they were saying how the bore hole must have sprung a leak and oil was finding its way through faults in the earth and coming up so far away! No mention anywhere about seeps, what is going on??
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Post by kevin » Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:05 pm

Atlanta=Atlantis.
The great lakes are 600 feet above the gulf level, as the oil vacates and the seabed drops, then the lakes will crash through into the gulf, the oil will spread around the northern hemisphere.
For the times they are a changin.
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Post by lizzie » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:52 pm

GaryN said: It would perhaps be an admission that oil is so plentiful that you can't stop it coming out, which would then lead to the truth that oil is constantly being produced within the earth, that there will never be a 'peak oil' problem, and thus send oil back to its $20 /BBL real value.
LOL. They are probably using free energy drilling equipment to pump it out of the ground so they can conserve their “dwindling” reserves of abiotic oil. It almost reminds me a “slash and burn” policy to create deliberate energy shortages – something that will give them an excuse to declare national emergencies and jack up oil prices to staggering new highs.

They probably have some type of scalar technology to clean up the mess, just as they do for nuclear waste; but it’s more profitable for them to use the most inefficient methods. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they have oil eating nanobots.

I’m sure they know all about the underground volcanoes and choose to remain silent. They can’t have all that sophisticated ultrasonic technology and not know what’s going on down there.
Kevin said: Atlanta=Atlantis.
The earth is turning inside out

Geomagnetic Field Inversion.
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global ... ical2.html
The current geomagnetic inversion frequency growth phase may not lead to an increase in oceanic volume from polar warming, but rather to a decrease in ocean levels. Frequent inversions mean stretching and expansion, rare inversions mean contraction. Planetary processes, as a rule, occur in complex and dynamic ways which require the combining and joining of all forces and fields in order to adequately understand the entire system. In addition to the consideration of hydrospheric redistribution, there are developing events which also indicate a sudden and sharp breaking of the Earth's meteorological machinery.
Maybe during the next cycle we get to live in Inner Earth; and the giants, elves and other invisible folks can up to the surface of the planet.

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Post by kevin » Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:43 am

Lizzie,
Watch out for CERBERUS.
The dog with three heads and the tail of a serpent.
Maybe the gates of hell have been opened?
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork ... orkid=1097
This black dog guards the cavern where gluttons are punished.
And haliburton may be involved...war.
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Post by WCSally » Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:11 am

So the question is: ... WHAT strategy would work to stop "disaster capitalism" from working? That is all we need to determine and implement!

In Greece they have a simple way to keep people on the straight and narrow (may not be true today) ... If you broke the law you went to the jail house. The jail house did not server any food. No friends, no family, no chow, you get very thin and get out of you get a box and unmarked plot.

Now if we had something this simple to use against the typical "disaster capital" attack/plot/subterfuge ... we would not have this mangy money generating scheme tearing up the place any more. If they will not change their thinking ... we must supply the impetus to cause them to do so. ... ideas?
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Post by junglelord » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:07 am

Top Houston attorney Tony Buzbee says he has new evidence which indicates that Deepwater Horizon’s managers knew that the BP oil rig had major problems before its explosion on April 20, citing the eyewitness account of a crew member who rescued burning workers on the rig of a conversation between Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell and someone in Houston. According to the witness, Harrell was screaming, “Are you ****ing happy? Are you ****ing happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”

Harrell was talking via satellite phone and whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm him down as the rig burned.

“I am ****ing calm,” said Harrell, according to Buzbee. “You realize the rig is burning?”

A boat captain then asked Harrell to leave the bridge. Transocean have refused to confirm or deny that the conversation took place.

Buzbee is a respected lawyer with a successful history of winning cases brought against oil companies. He represents 15 rig workers along with dozens of shrimpers, seafood restaurants, and dock workers. The witness to the conversation signed a 3 page statement attesting to the fact that it took place, but refuses to be identified for fear of reprisals.

Though Harrell himself has denied allegations of a feud with BP or Transocean in public hearings, the Atlantic’s Josh Harkinson points out that there were two other witnesses who personally experienced Harrell’s problems with their safety procedures.

“Testifying before the Coast Guard and MMS panel last month, Douglas Brown, the chief mechanic on the Deepwater Horizon, said that on the morning of the day that the rig exploded Harrell had a “skirmish” over drilling procedures during a meeting with BP’s “company man,” well site leader Robert Kaluza. “I remember the company man saying this is how it’s going to be,” Brown told the panel. As Harrell was leaving the meeting, according to Brown, “He pretty much grumbled, ‘I guess that’s what we have those pincers for,’” referring to the blowout preventer on the sea floor that is supposed to be the last resort to prevent a leak in the event of an emergency. The blowout preventer failed following the explosion on the rig, causing the massive spill. (Transocean’s chief electronics technician, Mike Williams, also recalled the argument but named a different BP “company man,” BP’s top official on the rig, Donald Vidrine),” writes Harkinson.

“Other rig workers have also claimed that they were pressured by BP and their supervisors to cut corners,” adds Harkinson. “Transocean roustabout Truitt Crawford told the Coast Guard that he overheard senior management saying that BP was “taking shortcuts” by replacing drilling mud in the well with saltwater, which would have provided less weight to contain the well’s surging pressure. Transocean’s Williams told 60 Minutes that a supervisor had dismissed evidence that the well’s blowout preventer had been damaged. And workers with Halliburton, the well’s cementing contractor, had complained that BP’s use of cement “was against our best practices” and told the oil company that it would likely have “a SEVERE gas flow problem” unless the well’s casings were centered more carefully.”

The details of this story would appear to point to mere negligence on behalf of Transocean and BP were it not for the plethora of other evidence indicating foreknowledge of the event and even possible deliberate sabotage of the oil well.

As we highlighted yesterday, on page 37 of British Petroleum’s own investigative report into the oil spill, it is stated that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without BP’s knowledge sometime before the explosion.

Highly suspicious stock and share trades by people connected to BP before the explosion indicate some extent of foreknowledge.

Goldman Sachs dumped 44% of its shares in BP Oil during the first quarter of 2010 – shares that subsequently lost 36 percent of their value, equating to $96 million. The current chairman of Goldman Sachs is Bilderberg luminary Peter Sutherland, who is also the former chairman of British Petroleum.

Furthermore, as reported by the London Telegraph on June 5th, Tony Hayward, the current BP CEO sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the spill.

On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world’s second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil well control company.

Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.

Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.

Alex Jones discusses more of the evidence which indicates a cover-up and the potential motivations behind it in the clips below.


http://www.infowars.com​/attorney-deepw ... explosion/
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Post by WCSally » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:41 pm

DOLPHIN DIE-OFF - USA: (SOUTHERN COAST)
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Date: Sun 6 Jun 2010
Source: USA Today [edited]
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/env ... hins_N.htm>


Federal environmental regulators are investigating an unusually large
number of bottle-nose dolphin deaths along the northern coast of the
Gulf of Mexico that occurred before the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon
oil spill.


There were 62 dolphin deaths from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle
in March [2010] and an additional 39 in April, said Erin Fougeres, a
marine mammal biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Marine Fisheries Service. The average is 18 for
March and 13 for April, she said.

It's the highest number of recorded dolphin deaths in 7 years, said
NOAA Public Affairs spokeswoman Monica Allen. For the entire Northern
Gulf of Mexico, the combined range is 0-14 deaths a year, Allen said.
NOAA has declared the deaths an "unusual mortality event" and ordered
a panel of specialists to investigate them, she said.



The deaths are being investigated as scientists study the effect on
marine life by the oil rig explosion, which has sent millions of
gallons of crude into the Gulf. Since 30 Apr 2010, 29 dolphins have
washed ashore dead within the designated spill area from Texas to
Florida, Allen said. None of them showed external signs of "oiling" or
damage from the oil slick, she said.

From 5000 to 6000 strandings are reported in the USA each year, Allen said. If not dead, the dolphins
are injured or unable to get back to the open water, she said.

Moby Solangi, president of the private, non-profit Institute for
Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Mississippi, attributed this recent
death spike to a colder than usual winter. Though the deaths in March
and April are unusually high, he said, there is some variation in
death rates from year to year. "Mortality is not constant," he said.

NOAA also is monitoring a small spike in dolphin deaths in South
Carolina, Fougeres said, as well as deaths on Florida's Atlantic
Coast. Marine biologists at Hubbs-Sea World reported 40 deaths in
Florida's Indian River Lagoon between Volusia and Brevard counties
since 1 Jan 2010. The annual norm is 65.

Seven criteria are needed for an unusual mortality event to be
declared, said Megan Stolen, a biologist with Hubbs-Sea World. They
include a marked increase in mortality, localization of the deaths,
similar or unusual diseases or pathologies, and deaths accompanied by
odd behavior.

The Indian River Lagoon had an unusual mortality event in 2008, when
89 bottlenose dolphins died in Brevard and Volusia.
No cause was ever
found. Although the latest lagoon deaths meet the increase in
mortality criteria, they meet none of the others, Stolen said. The
deaths were spread out over a large area and have no common
pathological links, she said. "Right now, we're higher than normal,
and everyone is concerned, but it's not fitting a pattern that
suggests there is one cause," she said.

[Byline: Jeff Schweers]

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[Hopefully necropsies either have been or will be performed. If they
have been and there are no clues, this is rather alarming. Were tests
for domoic acid and paralytic shellfish poisoning performed?
Morbillivirus infection is another possibility.

We know unusual weather has an effect on animals. Birds become
disoriented, food is more or less available. Would the abnormally cold
winter the south experienced have affected the water temperature,
having an effect on these mammals?

Photographs of the bottle-nose dolphin may be found at
<http://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/177 ... phin-1.jpg>
&
<http://site.ecfs.org/lifescience/picture$233>. - Mod.TG]

[see also:
2009
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Tetrodotoxin, sea slug, canine - NZ (02): dolphin susp. 20090906.3136
Cetacean morbillivirus, dolphins - Black Sea: susp, RFI 20090831.3066
Dolphin mortality - India 20090401.1250
2008
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Dolphin die-off - USA: (TX) 20080305.0913
2007
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Cetacean morbillivirus, dolphins - Spain 20070831.2866
Die-off, sea turtles, dolphins - Bangladesh 20070207.0480
2004
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Herpesvirus, dolphins - USA (FL) 20041104.2983
Dolphin die-off - USA (FL) (04): domoic acid 20040617.1615
Dolphin die-off - USA (FL) (03): Domoic acid 20040323.0806
Dolphin die-off - USA (FL) (02) 20040319.0762
Dolphin die-off - USA (FL) 20040312.0687
2003
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Dolphin, sea lion die-off, domoic acid - USA (CA) 20030604.1363
2002
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Dolphin/sea lion die-off, domoic acid - USA (CA) (02) 20020426.4035
Dolphin/sea lion die-off, domoic acid - USA (CA) 20020422.4011
Dolphin die-off, domoic acid - USA (Calif.) (02) 20020331.3846
Dolphin die-off, domoic acid? - USA (California) 20020325.3817
2000
Me?? ... I think it is Methane!
I think the warming of the planet is more than atmosphere deep and it is Methane being the Multi-Million PSI
Canary in the hydrocarbon coal mine.

What is all this rattling about a volcano? ... If there were volcanic gasses in the air, the air testing folks would speak up, wouldn't they?
Hypothesis:
Until our understanding is suffiently comprehensive, we are at risk.
Those not suffiently careful are also at risk.

Breath is the Courser and Mind is the Rider. -- Zoroaster

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