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Energy companies are lining up for their shot to drill in the Dakotas and Montana after a new government report revealed that a massive geological formation stretching across the states contains twice the oil and three times the amount of natural gas than was originally believed.

While the new estimate is drawing smaller companies to the game, the larger players like Schlumberger, Halliburton and Continental Resources are pushing forward with ambitious multi-year plans to stake their claim in the industry.

Continental recently announced a five-year plan to triple its production by 2017. The company’s growth is based on success in North Dakota and Montana as well as in parts of Oklahoma.

Companies line up to drill after survey shows Dakota oil, gas fields far bigger than believed | Fox News

In 1977, crack president Jimmy Carter warned that we were about to run out of oil.

Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce … Each new inventory of world oil reserves has been more disturbing than the last. World oil production can probably keep going up for another six or eight years. But some time in the 1980s it can’t go up much more. Demand will overtake production. We have no choice about that.

Proposed Energy Policy . Jimmy Carter . WGBH American Experience | PBS

Two years later, President Carter was attacked by a killer bunny while fishing.

While home fishing in Georgia during a summer when his popularity was at low tide, President Jimmy Carter’s small boat was “attacked” by a mysterious swimming rabbit, which the president warded off with a paddle.

Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused

At the two-thirds mark for meteorological spring, 2013 was the second coldest spring on record – slightly warmer than 1975.

Data is from here : Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

But 1975 had an unusually warm May at 17C. The two warmest months of May were in 1934 and 1896.

Both graphs above show the average of all daily temperatures at all US HCN stations, calculated per year.

The forecast for the first two weeks of May is well below normal, so odds are that the spring of 2013 will be the coldest on record in the US.  This is what Fort Collins looked like at 7pm today (May 1.)

Crack government scientists with supercomputers, predicted in January that this spring was going to be super hot!

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Scientists from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute have offered their explanation of why the sea ice in Antarctica is expanding: global warming is the reason.

Antarctica ice increasing because of global warming

They ran out of letters and had to start over again.

Winter Storm Achilles: Snow and Cold Kick Off May | Weather Underground

This is what the early spring looks like in my neighborhood today. The only thing that saved us from a huge mess is it has been so cold, the leaves have not come out yet on the Cottonwood trees. Normally they appear near the end of March.

Obama and the Congressional left reject the idea of putting security guards in schools, even though their own children are protected by security guards in their schools.

Rather than placing someone with a gun in the schools to protect the children, they say that children should call someone else with a gun (police) who take 20 minutes to arrive. In the meantime six year olds are told to defend themselves with ball point pens.

The Longview school district will join a nationwide group that identifies students who could become violent and tracks them throughout their education — regardless of where they move.

Longview ISD officials said Wednesday the district will participate in the Student Safety National Alliance starting in the 2013-14 school year.

“What we are offering and introducing to you today is the Walmart for student safety and security,” said interim district Superintendent James Wilcox.

About 70 school administrators and campus police officers from 25 school districts attended a school safety conference at the district’s education safety center to learn about the alliance.

“We’re here because of what happened at Sandy Hook. If we weren’t having these catastrophic acts, we wouldn’t be here,” Korem told school officials Wednesday.

Longview ISD to track students tagged as violent – Longview News-Journal: Local News

None of the desperate measures being implemented in the name of Sandy Hook would have had any impact on what happened there. The one thing which would have saved those kids was a security guard, and they absolutely refuse to discuss that.

h/t to Dave G

Grand Canyon uranium mining set to go ahead despite ban from Obama | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The mine is six miles away from the Grand Canyon. What kind of moron would describe that as “Grand Canyon uranium mining?”

Leftists scumbags are against fossil fuels because they emit CO2, and they are also against nuclear energy which does not emit CO2. Their real goal is plunge the world into poverty and kill billions of people.

The WWF founder (Prince Philip) said :

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation

We already have eight inches of snow on the west side of Fort Collins, and are expected to get near the all-time low temperature record for May tonight.

As global warming experts would explain, all of the cold air and snow is due to the fact that fossil fuel powered warm air holds more moisture. Or missing Arctic ice. Or Chinese aerosols. Or Heat sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Or they haven’t had a chance to adjust the temperatures yet. Or 97% of experts say that it is not snowing …..

We are celebrating the first day of May with 20 inches of snow in Fort Collins.

Warnings for Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County, Colorado | Weather Underground