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Ignoring Quantitative Reasoning: The Initial Estimates of the Size of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of 2010 and the Failure of Science in Properly Shaping the Policy Response

Gregory D. Bothun
Journal: Case Studies in the Environment
Case Studies in the Environment (2019) 3 (1): 1–7.
https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001578
Published: 31 December 2019
... platform, British Petroleum (BP), was a leak rate of 1,000 barrels per day (bpd). This number was not based on any scientific approach and was never put into context, for the media or the public, of whether this was a big or small number (i.e., how many bpd is equivalent to filling a bathtub for 24 h...
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