Tag: Macondo well
Destroying The Gulf In Order To Save It
Rep. Paul Broun (Wingnut-GA) dishes up the classic cognitive misdirection some people say ploy, which simultaneously feeds his audience’s Obama Derangement Syndrome while giving himself cover from the M$M by not saying it himself. The issue this time is the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico: BROUN: Our President he is utilizing this crisis of this oil spill to …
BP’s Bleeding Assholes
Ordinary citizens mobilize in response to Gulf tragedy Despite the best efforts of the BP/US government duopoly to minimize the sheer magnitude of the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists, reporters, politicians, community leaders, and activists of all stripes are saying enough is enough, and are taking the initiative to deal with it. In previous weeks, much of …
Drilling Your Own
BP board game foreshadows Gulf disaster LONDON — An obscure BP-themed board game in which players aim to avoid rig disasters has become an unexpected hit at a British toy museum. BP Offshore Oil Strike was released in the early 1970s and allows up to four players to explore for oil, build platforms and construct pipelines. The first player to …
BP and Big Brother (Update)
Big Brother embodied by Captain qua Admiral Kangaroo Allen Ever since an ancient, giant methane bubble traveling at the speed of sound sunk the Deepwater Horizon, an aircraft carrier sized oil drilling platform leased by BP, the transnational corporation has mounted a persistent campaign of coverup and denial. From deliberately underestimating the volume oil and gas unleashed by the explosion …
Is This The End Of The World As We Know It?
This post started out as a reply to Terry’s response to my previous post: Is BP’s Oil Volcano An Extinction Level Event (ELE). There he takes exception to Dr. Gregory Ryskin‘s account of the ELE that occurred some 251 million years ago ( mya), comparing it to the account given in The Urantia Book in Paper 59 titled: “THE MARINE-LIFE …
Is BP’s Oil Volcano An Extinction Level Event?
While much is being made of the catastrophic environmental and economic effects the oil being released from BP’s Macondo well, perhaps an even greater problem is the huge amounts of methane that accompanies it. Accounting for some 40% of the total volume, the methane is moving in vast underwater plumes at concentrations 10,000 that of normal. The man featured in …
