BARTON: Dr. Chu, I don't want to leave you out. You're our scientist. I have one simple question for you in the last six seconds. How did all the oil and gas get to Alaska and into the Arctic Ocean?
CHU: (Laughter.) This is a complicated story but oil and gas is the result of hundreds of millions of years of geology and in that time also the plates have moved around. And so, it's a combination of where the sources of the oil and gas ...
BARTON: Isn't it obvious that at one time it was a lot warmer in Alaska and on the North Pole? It wasn't a big pipeline that we've created from Texas and shipped it up there and put it under ground so we can now pump it up and ship it back?
CHU: No, there are continental plates that have been drifting around throughout the geological ages.
BARTON: So it just drifted up there.
CHU: Uh.... That's certainly what happened. It's a result of things like that.
WAXMAN: The gentleman's time has expired.
yeah.. I don't really get barton's point. was he trying to discredit global warming theories? if so, what's with the "arctic ocean" bit? the fact that there's oil under an ocean supports continental drift, not historical climate changes..
but i don't think barton's question is quite as dumb as it seems on the surface. he isn't actually wondering where oil comes from.
. Seriously,listen to his BAFFLING argument: 
