"Cable news built up the BP oil spill as an environmental disaster of biblical proportions. We were told the gulf beaches would be blackened with oil and that it could be decades before the gulf region returned to normal. The leaking well was capped nearly two weeks ago. Now scientists now say that much of the leaked oil is disappearing on its own. One of the first people in the media to question whether the predicted environmental disaster was overblown was scientist Dr. Bill Wattenburg who hosts a talk show on San Francisco-based radio station, KGO. Wattenburg was among the team of scientists who helped put out the oil wells that Saddam Hussein set on fire during the Iraq war. While not downplaying the environmental damage, Wattenburg pointed out that much of the oil would likely be eaten by microorganisms and eventually absorbed into the rich food chain of the Gulf. Since the leak has been capped, Wattenburg has been proven correct." - BP on the leaker oil disappearing from the Gulf