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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…quite honestly, I’d prefer to have Anthony host his own TV show! Fox gets a bit extreme for my tastes, they have their own biases.
WUWT is very free-wheeling, with lots of ideas exchanged at a very high level (usually anyway).
I just hope WUWT doesn’t become a hangout for a lot of conspiracy-types….
Clear pics. They show us contract workboats fighting the fire. They show us there was no EPA group present for several days. This is Obama’s Katrina. While dithering, the oil spread. It was scheduled to be burned but days turned into weeks and nothing happened. Texas A&M has the top oil field safety program. Maybe the climate majors can switch and get a real job.
Congratulations Anthony. The more people know about this site, the better. We have the best posters, the smartest commentators and terrific moderators that keep everybody in line. Now more people will hear about the site and hopefully visit and learn.
Here’s to this being the first of many WUWT references in the media!!
John B says:
May 4, 2010 at 3:33 pm
I didn’t know Glenn Beck had Anthony on already. The next conference is this month. It’s in Chicago.
http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/index.html
Maybe Glenn Beck will cover it. His show today was supposed to be all on ‘global warming’ again. I didn’t see it yet. He went into some important behind the scenes dealings of ‘global warming’ last week. Maybe you, and others, would like to see it?
in four 10 minute parts:
part 1
part 2
part 3
part4
He is covering more of the same in today’s show.
anon says: “…An astrologer on PlanetWaves doing a chart on the incident has found explosives dumps in the vicinity of the drilling…”
♪ooooooooo-♫eeeeeeeeee-♪ooooooooooo!!!
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
May 4, 2010 at 3:44 pm
“…quite honestly, I’d prefer to have Anthony host his own TV show! Fox gets a bit extreme for my tastes, they have their own biases.
WUWT is very free-wheeling, with lots of ideas exchanged at a very high level (usually anyway).
I just hope WUWT doesn’t become a hangout for a lot of conspiracy-types….”
You mean like there might be a concerted effort to hide data, prejudice scientific journals, and mislead the public regarding the climate and the alleged science behind the scare and laws and regulations? That kind? Or taking it a bit further and asking why? Yeh, we don’t want those nut jobs, do we.
Curiousgeorge says:
May 4, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Next thing you know, you’ll be on the Beck show. 🙂
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Man dude, you don’t know how bad I personally would like to see a full Glenn Beck show with Anthony, EM Smith, and Monckton to boot!!!
Go on the air. Watts on Air or Watts on the Air, or Watts Up In The Air,or Watts About the Air . We need it.
Been there, done that.
Has anyone realized that by pouring water on the damaged rig (with a breached deck) that they probably sank the thing and made the environmental problem 1000 times worse???
If the blowout had continued burning (rig not sunk) then there would much less of a slick (if any at all) to worry about.
IntercontinentalExchange has bought out the Chicago and European Climate Exchanges.
1 May: UK Times: Robert Lea: Climate Exchange founders glowing after agreeing to (Pounds Sterling) 350Million takeover
“The acquisition is an affirmation of the space that we are in,” said Mr Eckert. “However, there is a lot of political risk which has brought uncertainty. The deal works for the ICE because it is already in energy trading markets and because they are big enough to deal with the uncertainties.”..
From 2011 emission trading is likely to go more mainstream when the EU begins auctioning rather than allocating permits to polluting companies and from 2012 when the airlines are expected to be brought into the emissions trading net…
The exchanges expect a boom in derivatives such as carbon futures predicting the price of permits years hence.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7113476.ece
didn’t derivatives bring down the global financial system?
Excellent: Jimmy & Anthony! The Oil post was terrific. Agreed, or course, and with the quality of all concerned at WUWT it’s evolution will be most interesting and constructive for all with any curiosity. Time to add a trophy room!
Jeremy says:
May 4, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Has anyone realized that by pouring water on the damaged rig (with a breached deck) that they probably sank the thing and made the environmental problem 1000 times worse???
If the blowout had continued burning (rig not sunk) then there would much less of a slick (if any at all) to worry about.
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I’ve entertained these thoughts, myself. I believe the hosers thought they could extinguish the oil/gas fire and save something of the rig. Huh. Has that been done before when the Blow preventer was inoperative and open? Probably either way the rig was doomed.
Here’s hoping the “dome” concept works at the mile depth. With a dome, or dragging slicks together with “booms” seem to set up a good opportunity to upload the oil/water into adjoining tankers designated for such cleanups.
Got a question: why does everyone refer to the Gulf Oil predicament as The Gulf Oil Spill?? Nothing has spilled! It appears to me that it should be designated as the Gulf/BP Oil LEAK – eh?
Glad to see it. I direct everyone to this site when AGW comes up in conversation.
Oddly enough, the Web is transforming into the MSM, it is rapid, immediate and all pervasive.
True, different interest can capture the message with their own spin, but with the web, you can aggregate, hunt and
deliberate as you choose.
We are no longer a captive of Corporate sponsors, failed actors turned anchor men and blonde starlets, looking earnest and talking Scripted BS.
Whats more, sites like WUWT don’t talk down to the punters. The average WUWT reader has an I.Q high enough to prevent accidental death from licking liquid helium, can spot a logical fallacy from a mile away, and we drop in to learn something new.
FOX and co, have an agenda, they have too, they got money, lots and lots of money resting on their viewership.
I’m all for using the MSM to get common sense/real science and true debate out into the public, but cautiously.
TV is fickle, it kills whatever it creates.
When Jimmy Haigh’s pics were first posted here I sent the article to Drudge, telling him that Anthony & Jimmy had scooped the MSM. Drudge didn’t run with it. Too bad for him.
Maybe Drudge is resting on his laurels, after getting famous by scooping the Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton blue dress story. But that was a long time ago.
Fitzy says:
May 4, 2010 at 7:53 pm : Response: ” I’m vile and pernicious , but you can’t look away !! I make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say. I’m the best you can get, have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozin’ out of your TV set !!” – Frank Zappa
Addendum to prior comment: “With the explicit exception of TV weather persons” 8^)
Good score on the pics, Jimmy Haigh !! Hope it brings some of the success that all the hardworking folks who make this blog the informative and entertaining site that it is deserve. Hate to quote Lars Ulrich (the drummer from Metallica that parradiddled Napster into the dirt) but – “Ya, we sold out, …………………….. we sold out every night !!!!” Do TV weather anchors say “break a leg” before they go on air?
If 11 dead people and an expanding oil spill can have a up side this would be one. I guess. I don’t see how WUWT is better for it, though, but in showbiz any free publicity is important. I din’t think this was show biz.
Maybe a bit less high fiving on this on would be appropriate lest someone start singing “Your so vain – you probably think this spill is about you…”. It’s too late, actually, as that was “sung” earlier today at work by a warmy when this post first came out. I couldn’t argue with him.
It’s a tough house.
Several times over the last couple of years I have emailed suggestions to three different Fox hosts that they visit WUWT to gain a better perspective on AGW and all it related politically charged biases.
Did it do any good? ¿Quien sabe?
Hopefully the Fox News staff, at least, will make good use of the information that is available here.
BRAVO!!!
How many other oil rigs have blown up? I think it’s actually less than one. How many other oil rigs are there? I think there are lots.
It’s an amazing coincidence that not too long after Obama announced that he was going to open up a few more areas to drilling, this thing happens.
Who else (internationally) is drilling in the Gulf? A quick search finds:
“The world’s ninth largest integrated oil company, PEMEX currently operates approximately 190 platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.”
This is from 2006:
“Chevron and two oil exploration companies announced the discovery of a giant oil reserve in the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation’s supplies by as much as 50 percent and provide compelling evidence oil is a plentiful deep-earth product made naturally on a continuous basis.
Known as the Jack Field, the reserve – some 270 miles southwest of New Orleans – is estimated to hold as much as 15 billion barrels of oil. ”
Here’s a first-hand account:
Mark Levin interview
“On Friday, April 30th 2010, an anonymous caller contacted the Mark Levin Show to clarify the events that preceded the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Rigzone has transcribed this broadcast…”
It’s pretty convincing. It’s worth reading.
Another, from 2006:
Cuba drilling in the Gulf
“… the drilling potential within the existing Cuban basin is such that oil wells will, in the near future, be as close as 35-40 miles from the Florida keys,…”
““Any way you slice it, Cuba, with the help of its foreign enablers, is drilling closer to sovereign American property than we are,” Peterson said.”
Russia drilling in the Gulf
“Now Russia is using oil exploration to establish a new presence in the Western Hemisphere. It recently concluded four contracts securing oil-exploration rights in Cuba’s economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. A Russian-Cuban joint partnership will exploit oil found in the deep waters of the Gulf. ”
OK, maybe we can buy it from Russia or Cuba.