Since I have no good news to deliver, certainly everyone's stopped paying attention by now. I haven't gotten any comments from anyone on the matter. Nevertheless, I'll stay vigilant and attempt to educate.

Oil in the Loop Current: Some sources are beginning to confirm part one of the disaster scenario. Meteorologists at the Weather Network posted some recent pictures from NASA's MODIS satellite, which seem to confirm that the oil slick is entering the loop current. This says nothing about the ecologically devastating oil plumes that are below the surface, and extremely difficult to track.

I Drink Your Milkshake: Well hoo-rah, BP is siphoning off 2,000 barrels of oil a day from the leak. So now BP can pat themselves on the back and claim that they're getting "40%" of the oil before it comes out. Which would be a fairly piss-poor effort even if the well was only spilling 5,000 barrels per day. But since many scientists suspect that it's much more, this effort is more akin to putting a band-aid on a shotgun would.

The problem becomes apparent: BP refuses to revise it's estimates of "5,000 barrels per day". Meanwhile, it pumps huge amounts of toxic chemical dispersant to keep the oil from floating on the surface, where we can easily see it. Instead, it hangs underwater, unmeasured, except through the terrible harm it causes to the very foundations of sea life.

We may never know how much oil was/is/will be spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, but the impact will be recognizable for decades to come.