I got an email over the weekend from a Fox News reporter whose executive producer had seen the photos of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and wanted to use them. After checking on copyright issues with Jimmy Haigh, a WUWT regular who got the photos to me, I agreed. Here’s Fox News today citing WUWT:
Thanks Jimmy, for making this possible.
Here’s the original slide show on WUWT, should anyone want to link to it.
The Gulf oil rig explosion – on the scene photos
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OMG…. does this mean WUWT has gone mainstream? 😉
As the saying goes, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
Anthony, I think that you’ve just got yourself a whole raft of new visitors. Let’s hope that they get to learn a little more about the Truth about our climate from the multitude of well reasoned arguments, propositions, hypothothese and ideas promulgated and discussed here.
I thing that you may be on the verge of a break-though into the major leagues here! I hope so as this blog deserves much wider recognition for the achievements made by you and your hard-working Moderators.
You should all stand center stage and take a bow!
Err … hypotheses
“Jeff says:
May 4, 2010 at 1:12 pm
OMG…. does this mean WUWT has gone mainstream? ;-)”
The other way round…
quite a scoop, Anthony and JImmy!!
Yup Jeff – t-shirts, toothbrushes, cups and the Anthony Watts action doll ( with moving parts and meteorological instruments) coming soon.
If you buy the full set you get the bonus Arctic circle ice kit with receding ice – linked via your computer (usb) to NSIDC for real movement in your own home.
This could be huge 🙂
Despite federal plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill
Ben Raines of the Mobile Press-Register reports that despite a 1994 federal spill plan for the gulf, no one had a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill.
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html
The “In-Situ Burn” plan produced by federal agencies in 1994 calls for responding to a major oil spill in the Gulf with the immediate use of fire booms. A single fire boom being towed by two boats can burn up to 1,800 barrels of oil an hour. That translates to 75,000 gallons an hour, raising the possibility that the spill could have been contained at the accident scene 100 miles from shore.
In the days after the rig sank, U.S Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said the government had all the assets it needed. She did not discuss why officials waited more than a week to conduct a test burn. At the time, former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oil spill response coordinator Ron Gouguet — who helped craft the 1994 plan — told the Press-Register that officials had pre-approval for burning. “The whole reason the plan was created was so we could pull the trigger right away.” Gouguet speculated that burning could have captured 95 percent of the oil as it spilled from the well.
Made of flame-retardant fabric, each boom has two pumps that push water through its 500-foot length. Two boats tow the U-shaped boom through an oil slick, gathering up about 75,000 gallons of oil at a time. That oil is dragged away from the larger spill, ignited and burns within an hour. The boom can be used as long as waves are below 3 feet.
That Jimmy, he’s worth a fortune!
I kin, but he’ll no forget where he comes from.
Congrats you guys.
Next on Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck shows!
Jimmy and Anthony:
Congratulations to you both. Well done.
FoxNews is almost by definition the one non-mainstream TV news network, even though it is far and away the most watched. I can find regulars on Fox who are obvious warmists, lukewarmists, or skeptics, but most (not all) of the contributors on the other news networks tow the msm line…. on global warming, the Tea party, the immigration law in AZ, etc.
Those snaps are brilliant. I am booking my passage to Emerald, Queensland for the PRA meeting.
Nice link. FN gets a bit of traffic, so more good for you. 🙂
Killer pics and story, BTW.
WUWT is usually the best source of “real climate” information. I’d imagine that a lot of media people check in here every day.
WUWT: Fair, and NOT Unbalanced!
Jeff said on May 4, 2010 at 1:12 pm:
The MSNM, Main-Stream New Media?
Next thing you know, you’ll be on the Beck show. 🙂
WUWTMSM
[:)]
Fox News is not MSM
Hal
This means that WUWT is gaining publicity, and perhaps the # of skeptics are growing 🙂
It would be grand to see Anthony on Fox–being grilled by O’Reilly or questioned boldly by Beck. In addition to Founder’s Friday (the first one was last week on Sam Adams and apparenly set records for viewership–I watched and it was excellent; this Friday it will be on George Washington), I’d like to see Beck perhaps do a weekly or monthly special on Climategate, Cap ‘n Trade, and all related issues, featuring some of the regulars here along with other climate realists. There’s too much to cover in just one session and this whole issue just keeps expanding. So much for whitewashes, coverups and lawsuit threats!
you may want to take these findings into account? An astrologer on PlanetWaves doing a chart on the incident has found explosives dumps in the vicinity of the drilling, and is doing more research. Knowing that the drilling station is NOT fixed is very interesting, but I don’t know if the fact that there is ordnance in the area would be something important to know or not.
http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/2010/05/04/explosives-dumps-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spilll/
And it all started with a study of paint & Stevenson screens, then a few pics of strangely sited weather stations. Next thing you know we’ll have WUWT radio. And then watt? Anthony specials on FOX?
Anthony was on with Beck back when Beck was at CNN.
First a radio show and now FOX? Gosh Anthony, we’re sure gonna miss ya! 🙂
Anyway, iirc, Steve Milloy over at JunkScience.com works for FOX (or did at one time?). He’s fairly decent to good when reporting and commenting on all things AGW, but skepticism didn’t exactly enjoy an explosion of mainstream exposure. That, and I assume, given FOX’s ongoing anti-AGW sentiment, that many FOX viewers already know about WUWT and come here regularly already. Finally, and not to get political here, but once something is on FOX… forget about it. The rest of the MSM and left-leaning population will treat you with mistrust, if not as a plague to be stopmed out. That group will be more discouraged now more than ever from coming here. So I don’t think it likely that WUWT readership will grow as a result of this (nor shrink, either).
But all the same, congrats on another milestone, Anthony (and all contributors here at WUWT)