“Van Heerden, who, like just about everyone else working in the Gulf these days, is being paid out of BP’s spill response funds.”

So what’s the implication there? That, if you take BP’s money, you’re in BP’s pocket? That, because he’s being paid by BP, his word is suspect?

hello. Beyond Peons must have picked up TIME at a garage sale. without them paying me, i will state the Deepwater Horizon no longer exists. given enough TIME, the event will no longer exist. hydrogen is clean, safe, abundant energy. we are being charged taxes to pay for half ($10 billion) the damages from (in their minds) a catastrophe that has not occurred, and claims that have no basis in reality. remember, unethical vested interests are lacing carbon credits with oil aid. let’s all have a huge gulp.

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Time magazine, what a recalcitrant entity. Would not expect any
member of the mainstream media to do more than grasp at
straws and smoke that will deceive those expecting real
information. Anything for their masters. Time is also a source of
dribble that should at all times set off the skepticism alarms.
Note also how effortlessly Time moulded the information to
‘enhance’ bp’s image.

As its name implies, Time reverts to time so that it will be one of
those created obfuscations to make the other side ‘blink’, create
doubt, simply by saying in the end ‘only time will tell’. Imagine
how much ‘good’ time that will give bp to move on to some
other devious mischief.

What Digby Said:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-news-is-that-all-thats-left-is.html

People in general are slow to take an interest in the dangerous results of human degradation of the earth. Yet there is considerable evidence of grave danger if this degradation continues.
  In such a situation (call it mass deliberate ignorance) people who are concerned about continuing degradation are naturally going to view every evidence as a serious offense pointing to ultimate collapse of delicate earth systems.
  One problem is how to obtain and hold mass public awareness of very complicated problems. Another is how to institute necessary changes to stop the degradation.  A third problem is how to get business interests who exploit the environment to stop irresponsible plundering and adopt a more humane and caring attitude of self-control.
  A further complication is that scientific projections indicate that we don’t have much time to do all this. 
  Better an over-concern than the deliberate evasiveness which dominates the picture now.