Surprise! BP Gas Gone; Wish Newt Was Too

oil spill in Gulf

You all remember that massive oil spill two years ago when we watched our screens night after night and saw that ugly slick spreading from Louisiana to Florida?  God, we thought it would never stop leaking.  And we never thought it would ever get clean.  Well it’s gone.  Chewed up and eaten.  The methane gas, which was a major component of the vast plume of oil and gas had disappeared in 120 days.   So has the propane and ethanol.  

It’s an unbelievable tale, like the elves coming into the night and finishing the cobbler’s shoes before morning, the bacteria gobbled up the evil do-do and saved our pristine Gulf of Mexico.  That meant millions of barrels of oil have disappeared. 

In fact, 4.9 million barrels were dumped into the ocean— twice as many as the crude spilled during the Exxon Valdez incident in Alaska—and two million remained after the clean-up was called to a halt.  Yet last August, only a year later, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that most of the oil had dispersed.  Environmentalists immediately attacked the findings, but independent scientists verified the government's results.

And here’s something else.  Valuable fisheries also escaped the worst damage.

Miraculous.  The ocean's bacteria saved us from generations of disaster.

Now I wonder if other things can’t be reversed, like our frightening global warming.        

Newt Gingrich used to be motivated to save our planet and worked with Nancy Pelosi to solve this urgent problem.  He recently finished a new book, a sequel to his 2007, A Contract with Earth, with an entire chapter devoted to the subject.  But because of the evangelicals—specifically Rush Limbaugh—who doesn’t believe in global warming--he dropped the entire chapter and is publishing the book after the election. WHY?  The evidence of global warming is all around him.  It's closing in, yet I guess it's no longer a problem.  If the right winged Republicans say it isn’t so, it’s gone.
 

Instead, Gingrich now suggests that by the end of his second term, he'd like to create a colony on the moon, and if there's enough people gathered, start a state.

 In the next breath he claims that Obama’s out of touch with the American people.

It's just a good thing that when the Navy Seals worked their magic again last week, killing the nine Somali pirates and saving the two kidnapped victims, one an American woman, allegedly near death, both were still here on earth.  With Newt, he’d be rocketing them to Mars.  Wish he'd hitch a ride with them.