The Little Chu-Chu That Couldn’t

Joe Barton asks the Nobel Prize winner a science question which he doesn’t know the answer to, so he simply tries to BS his way through it.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=symYfq51aho]

Chu tries to claim that North Slope oil formed at low latitudes and later drifted north. In fact, the oil deposits formed when the climate was much warmer, and at about the same latitude where they are now.

Four key marine petroleum source rock units were identified, characterized, and mapped in the subsurface to better understand the origin and distribution of petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska. These marine source rocks, from oldest to youngest, include four intervals: (1) Middle–Upper Triassic Shublik Formation, (2) basal condensed section in the Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Kingak Shale, (3) Cretaceous pebble shale unit, and (4) Cretaceous Hue Shale.

http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/

h/t to Steve McIntyre