Experts fail to refute ORIGINAL BP DOOMSDAY article that went super-viral

My original two articles that both went viral around the ‘Net referenced both Dr. Gregory Ryskin of Northwestern University and Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M.

When Ryskin was interviewed by Businessinsider.com (through email) and asked if what I described in my article DOOMSDAY: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘WORLD-KILLING’ event could happen based on his explosive methane mass extinction theory he told the reporter, “probably not.” [article]

Probably not. Note he did not say, “no it can’t.” Scientists always hedge, at least the really smart ones do.

The article I wrote illustrates a worst case scenario based on uncontrolled cascading events. Those events continue even as I type this.

Some experts who are honest have admitted no one knows what could happen.

“What we have going on now in the Gulf is a huge science experiment and research needs to be done on it.” – Gary Byerly, professor of geology at Louisiana State University quoted in TIME.

No one really knows what could happen; they only think they may know.

Finally, the BP wellhead may not be the only problem that has developed. The entire area is geologically unstable as previously reported by Bloomberg news and according to the latest from Matt Simmons, an industry expert, there is another hole (that I described as a fissure) miles away from the wellhead that may have been caused by the BP catastrophe damaging and shifting the strata throughout the region due to the subterranean pressures.

A description of the instability and Matt Simmon’s latest data follow:

During this interview, Matt Simmons mentions that the research ship (the first investigation by Thomas Jefferson) found a heavy crude (and methane too of course) plume coming from the ocean floor 6 miles from BP wellhead. This would most likely not be a natural fissure. It is being debated by experts at this moment.

Oil Experts On Dylan Ratigan, “More Holes, Bigger Rupture“

Then, after I was vilified by some in the news media for reporting the fact that methane at some levels in the Gulf had reached 1 million times the  norm, Dr. Kessler confirmed [July 20th] what my sources told me and even stated that there has not been this much methane in the water since the last mass extinction.

Now Kessler is unavailable and Texas A&M won’t talk. But I downloaded the page that A&M had up for about 3 hours and have it saved.

500,000 people worldwide have read DOOMSDAY: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a ‘WORLD-KILLING’ event.

It has just made the news in South Africa a few hours ago.

Terrence Aym July 21, 2010