May 07, 2006
Oil and the ridiculously stupid John Corsi
Oh.My.God.
The things you can find with Google when you least expect it. While doing a cursory search (purely to satisfy my own curiosity, because I'm a nerd) to find out if the Thunder Horse field in the Gulf had reopened after last summer's Hurricane FunTime, I happened across this article by a fella named John Corsi. John's had a career going all the way back to 2004 lying through his crooked teeth about politicians like John Kerry! The subject of ridicule today is none other than John Corsi of the Swift Boat Veterans for Lying As Much As They Can About Damn Near Everything.
Apparently, last Fall Little Johnny Dumbass McStupid decided to write an article for World Net Daily which is pretty clearly in support of the abiotic origin of oil. Everyone who has an IQ over 56 knows that's a BS theory because it would mean that oil was being 'created' from MOLTEN FUCKING ROCK at temperatures which would instantly crack it into gasoline and other refined products, then ignite those products. So, of course John Corsi (voted Most Likely to Believe Anything by his high school class) buys it hook line and sinker and uses none other than the THUNDER HORSE FIELD TO PROVE HIS THEORY.
Here's are some of the choicer bits...
1) No one says that oil comes from 'dead dinosaurs'. It comes from organic matter that was not allowed to decay in a normal, oxygenated environment and instead was covered over by sediment at a depth which created pressures and heat sufficient to slow cook the materials over thousands, sometimes millions of years.Moreover, Thunder Horse also defies "fossil-fuel" oil theorists who like to argue that oil comes from dead dinosaurs and decaying ancient forests. With the water depth of nearly 2 miles, Thunder Horse is truly an ultra-deep project. From the floor of the Gulf, BP has drilled down another 6 miles to hit oil. What evidence is there that any ancient dinosaur ever walked on land that is now 8 miles down? Moreover, geologists identify the deposits in which BP has found oil in the Thunder Horse Field as Miocene, a period that occurred in the Cenozoic Era, some 24,000 years ago. Dinosaurs by then were long gone, having disappeared at the end of the Mesozoic Era, some 65 million years ago.
Organic material has been raining down on the Thunder Horse field (for example) for millions of years and sediment from North American rivers has come along and covered it up. Specifically, the layer they have dug down to is around 26-29,000 feet. Not 8 miles. Regardless, it is the Miocene and no one is saying that at that time the gulf was dry land.
2) No one even bats an eye when someone points out that a few million years ago the Arabian Peninsula was covered with water. No one, except John Corsi who apparently has NEVER heard of plate tectonics.
Seriously, I could go on and on but there's some good information about peak oil and current trends (as well as some great information about how oil is made for the John Corsi's out there) at National Geographic.
Peak Oil is real... no, it won't be the end of the world and wells won't just die out one day. However, they will start to decline in production, oil will become more expensive to produce and it's time we look for alternatives to hydrocarbons.
Posted by mcblogger at May 7, 2006 05:15 PM
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The article states that Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. So, obviously that gives him carte blanche to spew out b.s. on all sorts of topics. He really did talk about those dinosaurs all the way to the end of the article! What a weirdo.
Posted by: muse at May 8, 2006 06:42 AM
I do at least find it encouraging that he acknowldges the Earth is far older than 6k years:)
Posted by: McBlogger at May 8, 2006 09:43 AM
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