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Cooking up a Storm- A Recipe for Disaster?

Scientists draw upon lab experiments and past experience to determine what will happen to the oil from the BP oil disaster during the upcoming hurricane season. Bruce Gellerman reports.

If oil and water don’t mix, what happens when you add a hurricane? Living on Earth’s Bruce Gellerman whips up an experiment in his kitchen to see if the upcoming tropical storm season and Gulf oil gusher is a recipe for disaster. . .or dessert.