The Gulf Oil Spill –Should the World be Concerned?

By A. True Ott, PhD

”We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. If we go on the way we
have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face
of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”----- Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Andt hes econdangelsounded,andas it were a great mountain BURNING WITH FIRE was
cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became BLOOD; and the third part of the
creatureswhi chwer eint hesea,andhadl if
e,died.” -- Holy Bible, KJV, Revelations, 8:8-9

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Isthe“ GulfOilSpi l
l
”t rulyac atastrophe“ ofBi blicalProporti
ons”–or is the so-cal l
ed“ Macondo
Wel lBlowout”jus tasmal l“speed-bump”–ami nut
ei nc
onv eniencet ot hewor l
d’sov er al
leco-
system? I submit that it could well be both. It all depends on the chain of events during the next
30-60 days. Will the ruptured hole be repaired and sealed, or will it expand and grow?

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oni nt heGul fisex t
remel ydi reandcompl exwi thmanyunseenv ari
abl es.A “ gr eat
anal ysis”oft hesi tuationhasbeenpost edonJef fRense’ swebsi tebyawr it
ernamed“ SHR”–
who accurately sums the problem up very well. There is perhaps, a “ 50/50”chanceatbestt hat
the relief well efforts will be successful. Of course, we should all hope and pray for the best. A
wise man, however, needs t o seriousl y ask “Whati f?” Whati fthis beastr ef uses to be
har nessed,andt he“ hol ei ntohel l
”ex pandsgeometrically? As “ SHR”wr i
tes: “ It's beyond our
control as regular citizens really...we ALL should be screaming at our leaders that we do realize the
consequences and to take this seriously...and I mean like War footing seriously, because it could get that
bad....we can and should be aware of the historic nature of this thing because it IS being downplayed in
the media...it could create mass panic if people really knew..and it still might if it does blow apart
because there won't be any booms, any sucker hats or tubes or anything else that is going to do jack shit
to stop it...it'll be like trying to blow a tidal wave away with a soda straw and everyone become well
aware of just how weak and puny Man is compared to the forces of nature. If the well does cut loose? we
are talking thousands and thousands of square miles of toxic crud....I'm not even sure the well drilling
rigs would even be able to operate in the area...a massive rush of gas can sink ships...the gas is not
breathable and it's Explosive too...One thunder storm comes by and a lightning strike?....BOOM...I'm sure
the men working there realize they are probably in one the most hazardous work zones they have ever
been in...I don't think it's an ELE or something of that order, but we don't need to be wiped out to be
stuck enjoying a giant bowl of SUCK...for a very long time...

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ionsnow? Thi si snoor di
nary“ oilspi
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potential to impact the entire world in a VERY NEGATIVE WAY! As the venerable Jacques
Cousteau warned, we cannot destroy the ocean, because if we do –wedest roythev ery“ li
fe
cycles” oft he pl aneti t
self.Cous t
eau shoul d know – he was t he wor l
d’s pre-eminent
oceanogr apher !Fol ks,the“ watercy cle”oft heoceansandt helif
ecy cleoft hisamaz ingpl anet
are truly one. It is like a gigantic chain of dominoes. As an uncontrolled deep plume of toxic oil
andgasent er
st hewar m“ l
oopcur r
ent ”s t
r eam,itishighlypossi blet hat“ 1/
3oft hewor l
d’s
oceans ”coul dber ender edv oidofal llif
e–beginning with the plankton that travels the“ l
oop
current ”.

This1943mapaccur atelydepi ct sthemaj orocean“ loopcur r

ent ”andi tsebbsandf lows( shown
on the map as orange lines, fittingly enough). Much like the blood flow of the human body, the
wor l
d’s oceans ar e const ant l
y ci rculat
ing the globe. Cousteau understood and warned
constantly that once a massive content of contaminants (such as crude oil or gas) ever entered
the“ l
oop” ,lifeasweknow i tcoul dchangedr amati
cal l
y.I tallbeginswi t
ht helowly“plankton”
stream that flows andgr owswi tht he“ l
oop”.

Plankton, as Cousteau and other scientists have verified, is literally the basis of all life on this
planet.Iti sli
ter
all
ythemostc rit
icalli
nkont hewor ld’
sf oodchai n.Ev ent helarges tmammalon
the planet –the whale –depends entirely on healthy blooms of plankton to survive. Moreover,
plankton bloom cycles, combined with healthy ocean currents (and pH factors) determine the
planet’sweat herpatter
nss uchas“ ElNi no”aswel l.

Just as a healthy human body depends on correct and balanced pH levels, so too does the
wor l
d’soceansdepend onabal ancedandheal thypH r eading.Thephy toandz ooplankton
follows the pH levels in a balanced ecosystem scale. It is not hard to imagine what havoc a
massive oil spill, entering i
ntoandci rcul
atingtheocean’ s“ l
oopcur rent”couldwr eakont he
fragilepHbal ancescal eoft hewor l
d’soceans.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been studying the acidity of the sea for
decades, and produced this map. The acid/alkaline balance of the ocean is not constant as it
changes from place to place, from a low of 7.8 to a high of 8.2 (just like human blood as a
matter of fact). Low pH (but still alkaline) is associated with upwelling areas of high productivity.
In a given place, it is not constant either as it is higher at the end of the day compared with the
end of the night ( sunlightaf f
ec t
sHy drogen pr ocessesand phot osy nthesisin“ healthy”sea
water). When human blood is contaminated with poison, it causes the pH balance to drop
below critical levels, oxygen ceases to be carried in the lifeblood, and if not corrected soon,
DEATH (i.e. the lack of oxygen) is the inevitable result. (Try injecting a mixture of crude oil and
naturalgasdi rec t
lyi ntot hehumanbl oods t
ream’ spr imar yar ter
ies( t
hehuman“ loopcur rent ”)
and see how quickly death occurs.)

So, how does all this affect land ecosystems, one may ask? It is simply because the relative
health of the oceans ultimately will determine the amount of rain and snow precipitation that
blesses the land with food crops. Can you see how important healthy oceans are to all life on
planet earth?

Could oil spills make hurricanes more destructive, rains more torrential, and droughts
more pronounced? What an outrageous thought, and most est abli
shment“ sci
enti
sts”woul d
likely scoff at the idea! However, let's follow the logic stream. In recent years, there have indeed
been more hurricanes and stronger ones too. There have also been more torrential rains and
massive flooding in America andt hewor l
d,despi tet heconcer t
edef fortsoft he“Ar myCor pof
Engi neers ”.

We know that all storms (low pressure ridges) hurricanes and typhoons are formed because the
oceanwat erwar ms,andmov eswitht he“ currents”whi chi nturnallows more water volume to
evaporate more quickly, ( causing “l
ow pr essur er i
dges”t of orm). When pl ankton dies
,f or
whatever reason, the water becomes much warmer, resulting in much greater water being
evaporated, thus feeding storms such as hurricanes with more intense thermal energy.
Oceanogr apher shav epr ovent hata“ natural”gas called dimethyl sulphide (DMS) is produced
by decomposing plankton, and that the sea can quite suddenly become sick when plankton
massively dies. This in turn greatly compounds the solar energy to these dead microbes,
thereby suddenly producing more DMS in a downward spiral. This in turn makes more storm
clouds, much more rapidly and with much bigger droplets. It is accepted fact that that when the
s ea’
sl oopcur rent
sar ewarmed by only a few degrees, massive storm systems are the result.
This, at least to me, explains why the Gulf Coast has experienced more powerful hurricanes and
increased volume of them in recent years. I understand that this sounds somewhat bizarre, but
we can't dismiss this idea. Clearly, the planet's processes are interlinked, that much is certain.

The diagram below shows how closely the DMS molecule resembles that of water, and its role
in storm formation. Together with their negative and positive polarities, transparent water vapour
molecules attach to the DMS molecule, forming water droplets. So DMS promotes cloud
formation and heavier droplets, which of course in turn causes heavier rains and hurricanes.
Cloud formation also cools the planet, thereby counteracting the warming effect of greenhouse
gases –once again linked to decomposing plankton cycles as opposed to carbon emissions
from cars and factories.

So, if this massive oil spill is not contained quickly, expect it to kill a tremendous amount of
plankt onasi tcircul
atest he“ loopcur rent”.Inturn,ex pectt oseeamar kedi nf
luxofdestr
uctive
storms, followed by years of drought and famine. As Cousteau warned, the GREED of the oil-
consuming world may well ring the death knell for billions of people.