I found it above average interesting.
1. His credentials of 40 years studying the area as a professional geologist . . . oil industry etc.
2. His reasoned perspective.
3. He ends up saying things that fit quite hand-in-glove fashion to a LOT of the predictions.
4. Of course the naysayers will not be swayed, influenced, educated or informed even by someone who matches their criteria for experts worth listening to. None are so blind as those who WILL NOT see.
Sigh.
Number 5 on your list would be:
5. The publication, AAPG, The American Association for Petroleum Geologists, is a VERY reputable ACTUALLY peer reviewed professional magazine for the geology and geophysics areas of research and industry.
(I think, at least in time, he WILL be listened to! Every serious geology student subscribes to this magazine...many of them want to find OIL, and must have REAL DATA...so they won’t care about someone’s academic sacred cow!)