Did Obama Spike the Spill? | FrontPage Magazine

Did Obama Spike the Spill? | FrontPage Magazine

Preliminary reports issued on Wednesday by the national oil spill commission indicated that the Obama administration covered up the worst-case – and as it turned out most accurate – estimates of the amount of crude released into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April. Charges of “cover up” are flying about the blogosphere, but there’s another side to this story. Regular readers of FPM know that your humble correspondent is a scientist who has been employed in the environmental industry for decades. Accordingly, my perspective here is going to be a little different than what you will read or hear in other places. At the end of this tale, it will be necessary to throw the Obama administration under the bus over its approach to the spill, but not for the reasons most other commentators will be moved to do so. For Obama’s biggest error was not in suppressing information that suggested that more oil was being released, but rather in failing to inject calmness and reason into a discussion that grew ever more hysterical with each passing day.

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