Below is some confused, strange chatter from FOX News on the oil leak, which will be parroted by Republicans in Congress and entertainment radio talk show hosts.  “Where’s the oil?”  FOX host Brit Hume can’t see it. This nonsense, this doubt-planting on every single environmental topic of the last 10+  years, just  spreads and spreads among conservatives with soap boxes, to the point where the American people are no longer concerned about global warming much at all.   They used to be, before the denial movement started happening, funded by big oil and big coal and driven by GOP talking points.   Now these members of the “news media” are even denying there is much oil from this oil spill, when even some British Petroleum estimates were up to 70,000 gallons a day. Is there any hope that we can get serious climate action  — ever? — with this type of propaganda and ignorance masquerading as “news” discussion?

Read more of the story here. It’s hard to believe, but this “news host”,  Brit Hume,  would have us believe that most oil in the ocean is from “seepage” and that makes this oil spill somehow less significant.   It’s no wonder that people of this political persuasion (the right-wing extremist kind) has no respect for facts, logic or science. It’s enough to infuriate anyone.   Talk to people on the coast of Florida, Mr. Hume, and tell me if they are ever concerned about “seepage”, or whether they think the ocean can just somehow absorb this oil.   The ocean is not a sponge for oil and other garbage humans dump into it.   It used to be a dependable carbon sink, but even that is changing.   This oil spill is now threatening the barrier reef off the coast of Florida, and it’s threatening the shores of Cuba, and Hume can’t  see it. So therefore, it must not be very bad.  That exemplifies FOX News about as well as anything.

The saddest thing of all is that this oil leak is not the only huge threat to the Atlantic ocean, not even to the Gulf of Mexico.  Chemicals and pesticide runoff leading to the Gulf “dead zone”, overfishing, military sonar, and ocean acidification were already threatening the oceans before the sunken oil rig was built.

They  are just now seeing the first tar balls off the shores of Key West, but people claim they can’t be sure where they come from. Are tar balls commonly found off the shores of Key West? Of course not.  So, these must be from somewhere.  Hmmm, what just happened that might have caused them to appear?   The currents are already picking up the oil and moving it around right off the coast of Florida. This will be a catastrophe for the local and state economies, and what will all those people in the tourism industry do when they lose their jobs?