Parts of the continental United States experienced record temperatures this week, resulting in deaths, power outages, and a general realization that climate change is affecting the world far more seriously than politicians appear to know. To make matters worse, the ocean has now caught fire.
When video of a fire in the Gulf of Mexico surfaced, social media was flooded with anxiety and well-deserved hyperbole. A broken oil line near a Pemex oil platform is thought to be to blame. The result was a literal fire in the middle of the sea, with crews attempting to put out the blaze amidst millions of gallons of water.
The first video appears to be taking place underwater in some way, however it is actually ignited oil on the water’s surface. You know, Cleveland-style in 1969.
Every single video of this creature was terrifying.
We already know that a similar gas event created a Door to Hell in Azerbaijan, and who can forget the perpetual burning beneath the (largely) abandoned city of Centralia, Pennsylvania? As a result, there’s some precedent here.
The fire, however, was put out by Friday night, according to Reuters. Still, feel free to add this to the expanding list of shockingly dramatic, supervillain-like ways humans is literally burning the planet on fire. Everything will be OK, I’m sure.
