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"Oil Rain" Confirmed: NASA Chief Mission Scientist

Clouds from Gulf Did "Rain Oil" on Land

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The audio excerpt from an interview with University of California-Santa Barbara scientist, Ira Leifer, who coordinated NASA's remote sensing mission during the BP blowout has been taken down, so I've replaced the clip with a much more broad-based series of amateur interviews, with footage taken from all over the Southern US, where the effects of oil rain were felt by people from all walks of life.

Below is the text excerpt of the interview on this subject with NASA scientist, Ira Leifer.

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Acknowledgements to Jeff Young of 'Living on Earth' &
Grant Lawrence of 'Bodhi Thunder'
February 18, 2011:

LEIFER: ...[T]hey showed up as if they had almost a millimeter of oil in the cloud. And these hydrocarbon-laden clouds - when they reach land - would in fact rain oil.

Leifer thinks this oil rain is an unprecedented oil spill phenomenon - a combination of the Gulf's high humidity and the columns of thick smoke from burning oil. A lot of things about the BP blowout made it unlike other oil spills.

Most spills happen all at once, say, when a tanker or pipe ruptures. The BP wellhead kept spewing for 87 days, sending oil to the surface in a plume that Leifer says kept pushing the oil's toxic chemicals into the air.

LEIFER: Air sampling that was conducted both on a boat and by NOAA in the atmosphere showed that this plume contained numerous components and that these components were...many of them are toxic...