Cowlesy
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It is now raining oil in Louisiana, confirmed by friends of friends.
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From a logical standpoint, I just do not see how this is possible, via the mechanisms of the Hydrologic cycle.
Acid rain (famous a few years back) was due to the pollutant aerosols that were already in the atmosphere mixing with cloud formation and coming down with rain droplets.
Frogs and etc. that sometime rains down is usually due to a waterspout that physically sucks up the "debris" from the shallow water and rains it back down.
With oil in the gulf, I see no way that the hydrologic cycle is picking up both vaporized water molecules and petroleum and lifting it into the air to mix within cloud formations. Burning eyes, and etc, can be caused by the oil evaporating into its constituent parts, vapor wise, maybe even Natural Gas, but oil would not, I don't think, be able to go up and come right back down as oil.
Smarter forum members, correct me if I am horribly wrong on my science here. . .
Acid rain (famous a few years back) was due to the pollutant aerosols that were already in the atmosphere mixing with cloud formation and coming down with rain droplets.
Frogs and etc. that sometime rains down is usually due to a waterspout that physically sucks up the "debris" from the shallow water and rains it back down.
With oil in the gulf, I see no way that the hydrologic cycle is picking up both vaporized water molecules and petroleum and lifting it into the air to mix within cloud formations. Burning eyes, and etc, can be caused by the oil evaporating into its constituent parts, vapor wise, maybe even Natural Gas, but oil would not, I don't think, be able to go up and come right back down as oil.
Smarter forum members, correct me if I am horribly wrong on my science here. . .
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