And I thought the oil was the problem...

Non-Phish General
#1

[size=150]Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘world-killing’ event [/size]

The bottom line: BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years.

EDIT: Duh…the link…
helium.com/items/1882339-doo … ling-event

#2

That article is very un-American.

#3

Well I’m gonna kick some elite banking cabal ASS if THAT happens.

#4

[size=200]Scientist Denies He Ever Predicted BP Oil Spill Would Cause Extinction Of Mankind[/size]

Suddenly everyone’s talking about the methane-driven oceanic eruption and mass extinction theories of Dr. Gregory Ryskin, claiming that elevated methane levels from the oil spill could cause the end of mankind.
Absent from this discussion has been Ryskin, who Northwestern University says is out of his office until September. The professor gave us the real story by email:
“I also want to emphasize that in my theory, methane hydrates (clathrates) do not play any role.”
Methane hydrates are the volatile compounds that have been released in large quantities in the Gulf of Mexico. They may suffocate aquatic life or cause a pressure explosion. But they probably won’t poison the atmosphere and destroy 96 percent of life on earth.
He was talking about “an extremely fast, explosive release of dissolved methane (and other dissolved gases…) that accumulated in the oceanic water masses.” For more on Ryskin’s methane theories, he said we should watch this video from 2007.

businessinsider.com/gregory- … ane-2010-7

Nothing about this disaster is good, obviously, but this doomsday scenario is more than a little dubious.

#5

^ Whew… Thanks, Eric. I needed that.

::needs to do more research::

Now I can go back to being jealous of the show list in your signature.

#6

how long before the world ends?

i have 4 credit cards that i want to max out and a car loan to default on.

#7

haha, anytime. I read the article you linked and it had me a little scared, so I googled that Ryskin fellow and found that the folks at Helium just adapted his theory to the BP disaster because they both involve methane…

#8

Too bad its bunk. nothing like a good doomsday scare to give congress an excuse to push thru some hair-brained, ideological legislative crap. :mrgreen: :problem: