Should we torch oil spills off Alaska with napalm? “No two oil spills …burn the same, and some burn weakly before sputtering out. (Investigators are) trying to learn if fire can be used to clean up oil spills on slushy ice during the fall—conditions considered too dangerous for cleanup workers operating out of boats.” —Discover I have often seen the layman’s perennial question of why oil slicks cannot simply be ignited scoffed at as naive. I never saw the naiveté…