{"id":570332,"date":"2010-05-19T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2010-05-19T11:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:49:59","slug":"house-hearing-at-2-pm-on-%e2%80%9csizing-up-the-bp-oil-spill-science-and-engineering-measuring-methods%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570332","title":{"rendered":"House hearing at 2 pm on \u201cSizing up the BP Oil Spill: Science and Engineering Measuring Methods\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memo to U.S. House:\u00a0 It ain’t a “spill,” it’s an undersea volcano spewing 3 million gallons a day \u2014 two Exxon Valdezes a week<\/a>.\u00a0 That’s the point of this hearing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to watch the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, but you can today 2 pm edt– click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I definitely think it worth watching given who the witnesses are:<\/p>\n

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  • Steve Wereley, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University<\/li>\n
  • Richard Camilli, Associate Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/li>\n
  • Michael Freilich, Director of the Earth Science Division, NASA<\/li>\n
  • Frank Muller-Karger, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Remote Sensing, University of South Florida<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Werely has been all over the news and the source of many of the figures that I have cited — see Should you believe anything BP says?<\/a><\/p>\n

    Finally, here’s a good piece from The Atlantic<\/em>, “Why BP Won’t Measure the Oil Spill<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Memo to U.S. House:\u00a0 It ain’t a “spill,” it’s an undersea volcano spewing 3 million gallons a day \u2014 two Exxon Valdezes a week.\u00a0 That’s the point of this hearing. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to watch the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, but you can today 2 pm edt– click here. I definitely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}