What makes me most pessimistic about it is that even in the face of empirical, observational evidence of global warming, there are still people out there who de

What makes me most pessimistic about it is that even in the face of empirical, observational evidence of global warming, there are still people out there who deny it. The real gravity of this situation in the Gulf is being drastically underplayed -- because no one has accounted for the combination of its enormity plus the fact that hurricane season is nigh. And NOAA is predicting a higher than average hurricane season. Even if NOAA ends up being wrong about that, one or two hurricanes of even moderate strength anywhere near that enormous oil spill, which I suspect is FAR larger than anyone at BP has admitted (several researchers indicated that based on analyzing BP's video, BP's estimate of 5000 barrels per day is short by close two orders of magnitude), will whip the entire coastline into a toxic nightmare.