Has
doomsday arrived?
The BP Gulf Disaster
May have triggered a world-killing event.
By Terrence
Aym
Ominous
reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout
that the disaster, which unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico, may have consequences
that reach biblical proportions.
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' - U.S. 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"
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