QOTD (Big Badda Boom Edition)

[geekchick]

I get questions about outlandish volcanic scenarios all the time and I try my best to remind people about scientific reality, probability and that the planet is not run by Michael Bay.

- Erik Klemetti, in a discussion about how that looming extinction-level event caused by methane in the Gulf story is claptrap.

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this. I was hoping someone knew of a link to counter the other ones I saw.

[geekchick]

I saw that story a little while ago and went
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so did a little hunting around. There's this article too that quotes a specific geologist.

[penk.livejournal.com]

I had not heard about this before. My respect for Huffington Post (neutral really) is now completely in the crapper.

Hoagland is a crank, pure and simple. He has no scientific training whatsoever. He's a conspiracy theorist.

Why this idjit is being given wide exposure is beyond me.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Oh, one more thing about Hoagland

Phil Platt has done an great detailed rundown of Hoaglands pseudoscience background:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/credentials.html

Needless to say, Hoagland didn't come off particularly well.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

eh? Some end-of-world catastrophe scenario due to the BP foulup? LOL. That's a huge stretch... besides, if I were going to worry about ocean clathrates suddenly dumping their load, so to speak, I'd be more concerned about something pinging the offshore Pacific Northwest...