Fair enough, I forget sometimes that since I am posting under a username here my credibility as a geologist are no different than anyone else. So, since proof from the web is desired:
A non geologist summary
snopes.com: Bakken Formation
An educated layman more in detail:
The Oil Drum | The Bakken Formation: How Much Will It Help?
Geology Geek
Bakken Shale Formation Oil - North Dakota and Montana - USGS
USGS
USGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate— (4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM)
Those are just the first page of Google, BTW, and jibe pretty much with what I have read in the journals* over the years.
Anyone who is really interested in the topic (maybe one other person out there in Ingoland) can dig a little more (geologist joke) in the journal "Geology" at Geology
Thanks, I'll do that.
But, see, the reason I have a hard time taking SE's "challenge" seriously is because I could post all of this all day long and people like that will still say that Alex Jones or Glenn Beck are a more credible source simply because they are public figures. As someone who is extremely widely known and respected in my field of expertise, and who hobnobs with some of the most respected people in scientific fields related to my area of expertise, I have a very difficult time taking seriously an entertainer who does not exhibit the level of rigor in his research that I expect from my peer group.
I aggree totally with this. I dont listen to either one of them. While presenting taboo subject matter for most of the MSM, they both manage to marginalize it. I think that there are much better sources of information on these topics and its a shame that the likes of AJ and GB spook people away from really investigating what is happening to our world. Either by being over the top like AJ or just a weasel like GB they both achieve the same goal, desensitization.
It was in reference to the person who wrote the information in the link you provided.
Understood. Thank you for explaining.
So is the oil link the only one to grab anyones attention? I threw a bunch of stuff out there, did anyone bother to look? Or are all of you going to continue to stare at the shadows on the wall?
Nothing would make me happier than to be totally wrong on every count.
Im interested in knowledge, not in being right.
I still find it amazing that even in light of all the Wall Street, corporate and banking fraud that has happened and continues to this day, that the American people still believe that massive, systemic and endemic lying, misinformation and cover-up is an impossibility in the modern world. Perhaps the greatest lie of all is the one the American public is telling itself, "Everything is going to be ok."