Ken Ring on Oil

[Refus de Sejour]

Hey guys,

I'm delurking in order to draw attention to an article published on Yahoo! NZ by Ken Ring. Remember Ken Ring? He's the guy who claims to be able to predict earthquakes by analysing lunar cycles. He also publishes almanacs predicting a whole year of NZ weather in advance, day by day. Again, these predictions are based on lunar cycles.

This time, he's turned his attention to: peak oil!

He begins his "debunking" of peak oil theories by claiming, basically, that the earth is so big it must have plenty of oil inside it:

The volume of the earth is 260,000 million cubic miles.

If by volume a millionth of the interior of the earth contains oil, there is enough to last 260,000 years.

But if 1/250,000 of the earth is oil, which is only about the volume of the Mediterranean Sea, which does not seem unreasonable, at the present rate of consumption we can drive our SUVs around for another million years.

Yes, a million years.

He then goes on to suggest that oil is a renewable resource:

In nature, everything recycles, so it is highly unlikely that oil is the sole exception. It is more probable that oil is renewable, alongside oxygen or water.

And more:

Russian scientists believe that oil is "a-biotic", continuing to be replaced by chemical processes in the crust of the earth.

Russia is the world’s largest oil producer and natural gas producer, and claims the fossil-caused oil theory is an unscientific un-provable absurdity, but this idea is has not found traction in the West.

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Despite media beat-up, oil spills from tankers and rigs eventually disperse because crude oil conatins microbes which break it down.

That is why we refine oil – to kill the microbes. Spillage has occurred over thousands of years, and oil even receives mention in The Bible; pitch being used on Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:14).

I'm actually quite embarrassed that a NZ news site saw fit to publish something that radiates such stupidity. Anyway, just thought I'd bring it to your attention.

 

[Burning Beard]

I'm actually quite embarrassed that a NZ news site saw fit to publish something that radiates such stupidity. Anyway, just thought I'd bring it to your attention.

He always ends up on a stage somehow. He totally misrepresents science over and over. First, with his weather predictions, then there's the climate change denial, his beef with NIWA, the earthquakes (where he really did scare the pants off a lot of people) and now this.

You're probably aware of this site, but this guy has been going toe-to-toe with Ken for a while now.

 

[George 152]

I thought after the last earthquake fiasco he would have gone somewhere like the Snare Islands as a penance for being such a pillock.
Evidently that didn't happen...
Must have bee a -real- slow newsday