Doomsday Methane Bubble Rupture?

Doomsday Methane Bubble Rupture?

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Doomsday Methane Bubble Rupture?

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.

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.
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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

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