Image Source: Boston.com A new AP article out on Monday had my jaw on the ground. The article, By the numbers: Oil leak wouldn’t fill Superdome by Seth Borenstein seemed to play down the severity of the BP oil leak and support BP CEO Tony Hayward’s statement that the amount of oil spilled was “relatively tiny” by providing comparisons to everyday measures that we can relate to. Overwhelmed and saddened by the gargantuan size of the Gulf oil spill? A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the envi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
