The Methods Section

2,500 square miles of ocean… at least 200,000  gallons continuing to pour out each day… containment costs at over $6 million dollars per day…

These numbers cannot even begin to describe the enormity of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Now, however, thanks to Paul Rademacher and Google Earth, anyone can view the oil spill in relation to their own location.  Visitors can use the website to transpose an image of the spill over any place in the world.  What a fabulous use of Google Earth; this type of visualization is better than any analogy I’ve heard on the news (“It’s the size of Jamaica!”)

Here is a look from my location: Chicago, IL.  Yeah… that’s big.