Scientists Debate Cause of Dolphin Deaths

In yahoo news, this article discusses the cause of the death of eighty dolphins. Scientists want to know if the reason for the death of all of these dolphins was the oil spill or if it was just the chill of winter. An odd number of dolphins have been washing up on shores in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida but The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just said that it was and unusual event in mortality. The dolphins that have been washing up are not adults but they are newly born. With the amount of 206 million gallons of crude oil, it is very likely that this has had an effect on the dolphin deaths, even though there has been rarely low temp in Gulf. Experts are estimating more deaths in the future.

This number and article is alarming to me because I really didn't realize that there is an actual debate over the cause of the dolphin death. I think that if the oil spill is the reason, then there should be help from BP with the amount of animal deaths and clean up. They just made a huge mess and left it for everyone else to deal with and yet people still buy their gas and they are still making millions every year. There needed to be more of a penalty for the people working for BP. It saddens me that innocent animals had to die over something caused by humans.