Hurricane vs. Oil Slick
What would happen if a tropical storm hit the oil floating in the Gulf?
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Explainer thanks Kerry Emanuel of MIT and Dennis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center.
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Chris Mooney is a Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT. He is the author of The Republican War on Science and, with Sheril Kirshenbaum, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future.
Photograph of Gulf oil spill by by NASA via Getty Images.
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