Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage
operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of
Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.
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251 million
years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions,
poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life
on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction
event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the
world. [2]
55 million years later another methane bubble
ruptured causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal
Maximum (LPTM).
The
LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]
Those subterranean seas of methane
virtually reshaped the planet when they explosively blew from deep
beneath the waters of what is today called the Gulf of Mexico.
Now,
worried scientists are increasingly concerned the same series of
catastrophic events that led to worldwide death back then may be
happening again-and no known technology can stop it.
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.
The
oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and
may have set the stage for the eventual premature release of a methane
mega-bubble.
Ryskin’s methane extinction theory
Northwestern University's Gregory Ryskin, a
bio-chemical engineer, has a theory: The oceans periodically produce
massive eruptions of explosive methane gas. He has documented the
scientific evidence that such an event was directly responsible for the
mass extinctions that occurred 55 million years ago. [4]
Many
geologists concur: "The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic
eruption for marine and terrestrial life are likely to be catastrophic.
Figuratively speaking, the erupting region "boils over," ejecting a
large amount of methane and other gases (e.g., CO2, H2S) into the
atmosphere, and flooding large areas of land. Whereas pure methane is
lighter than air, methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier,
and thus spreads over the land, mixing with air in the process (and
losing water as rain). The air-methane mixture is explosive at methane
concentrations between 5% and 15%; as such mixtures form in different
locations near the ground and are ignited by lightning, explosions and
conflagrations destroy most of the terrestrial life, and also produce
great amounts of smoke and of carbon dioxide..." [5]
The warning
signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that
the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of
large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the
elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other
gases into the surrounding water.
Such occurrences can lead to
the rupture of the methane bubble containment—it can then permit the
methane to breach the subterranean depths and undergo an explosive
decompression as it catapults into the Gulf waters. [6]
All
three warning signs are documented to be occurring in the Gulf.
Ground
zero: The Gulf Coast
The people and property located on the
greater expanse of the Gulf Coast are sitting at Ground Zero. They will
be the first exposed to poisonous, cancer causing chemical gases. They
will be the ones that initially experience the full fury of a methane
bubble exploding from the ruptured seabed.
The media has been
kept away from the emergency salvage measures being taken to forestall
the biggest catastrophe in human history. The federal government has
warned them away from the epicenter of operations with the threat of a
$40,000 fine for each infraction and the possibility of felony arrests.
Why
is the press being kept away? Word is that the disaster is escalating.
Cracks
and bulges
Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky
seabed at an accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first
relief well. The EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane,
benzene, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear
advanced protection including state-of-the- art, military-issued gas
masks.
Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage
workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean
floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is
causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over
thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some
claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet.
The
fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become
the epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of
methane.
The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000
pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert,
the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a
terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.
Another well-respected expert, Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M
University has calculated that the ruptured well is spewing 60 percent
oil and 40 percent methane. The normal methane amount that escapes from a
compromised well is about 5 percent.
More evidence? A huge gash
on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been
reported by the NOAA research ship,
Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news
blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced
their concerns that the widening rift may go down miles into the earth.
That
gash too is hemorrhaging oil and methane. It’s 10 miles away from the
BP epicenter. Other, new fissures, have been spotted as far as 30 miles
distant.
Measurements of the multiple oil plumes now appearing
miles from the wellhead indicate that as much as a total of 124,000
barrels of oil are erupting into the Gulf waters daily-that’s about
5,208,000 gallons of oil per day.
Most disturbing of all:
Methane levels in the water are now calculated as being almost one
million times higher than normal. [7]
Mass death on the water
If
the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles
wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, every
ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will
immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast
Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage
operation will die instantly.
Next, the ocean bottom will
collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of
water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating
everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear blast, a
high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening
everything in its path before the water arrives.
When the
roaring tsunami does arrive it will scrub away all that is left.
A
chemical cocktail of poisons
Some environmentalist experts are
calling what’s pouring into the land, sea and air from the seabed breach
’a chemical cocktail of poisons.’
Areas of dead zones devoid of
oxygen are driving species of fish into foreign waters, killing
plankton and other tiny sea life that are the foundation for the entire food chain, and polluting the air with
cancer-causing chemicals and poisonous rainfalls.
A report from
one observer in South Carolina documents oily residue left behind
after a recent thunderstorm. And before the news blackout fully
descended the EPA released data that benzene levels in New Orleans had
rocketed to 3,000 parts per billion.
Benzene is extremely toxic
and even short term exposure can cause agonizing death from cancerous
lesions years later.
The people of Louisiana have been exposed
for more than two months—and the benzene levels may be much higher now.
The EPA measurement was taken in early May. [8]
Doomsday
While
some say it can’t happen because the bulk of the methane is frozen into
crystalline form, others point out that the underground methane sea is
gradually melting from the nearby surging oil that’s estimated to be as
hot as 500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Most experts in the know, however,
agree that if the world-changing event does occur it will happen
suddenly and within the next 6 months.
So, if events go against
Mankind and the bubble bursts in the coming months, Gregory Ryskin may
become one of the most famous people in the world. Of course, he won't
have long to enjoy his new found fame because very shortly after the
methane eruption civilization will collapse.
Perhaps if humanity
is very, very lucky, some may find a way to avoid the mass extinction
that follows and carry on the human race.
Perhaps.
…………
Sources
[1]
The Permian extinction
event, when 96% of all marine species became extinct 251 million
years ago.
[2] “The Day The Earth Nearly
Died,” BBC Horizon, 2002
[3] Report about the Late
Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM), which occurred around 55 million
years ago and lasted about 100,000 years. Large undersea methane caused
explosions and mass extinctions.
[4] Ryskin Theory
Huge
combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped under the seas and
explosively released could have killed off the majority of marine life,
land animals, and plants at the end of the Permian era—long before the
dinosaurs arrived.
[5] James P. Kennett, Kevin G. Cannariato,
Ingrid L. Hendy, Richard J. Behl (2000), "Carbon Isotopic Evidence
for Methane Hydrate Instability During Quaternary Interstadials,"
Science 288.
[6] “An awesome mix of fire
and water may lie behind mass extinctions”
[7] “Methane in Gulf
'astonishingly high'-US scientist”
[8] Report: “Air Quality - Oil Spill” TV 4WWL
video
Links
“BP engineer called doomed
rig a 'nightmare well’”
History Channel Mega
Disasters - Methane Explosion
“BP Official Admits to
Damage Beneath the Sea Floor"
