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September 30, 2007
Environmentalist Bureaucrats Are Bad for the Environment
Posted by Dave Blount at September 30, 2007 10:27 AM
It's a good thing manmade global warming isn't real, because if it were, the meddling of politically correct bureaucrats would be making it worse.
According to Nobel prize–winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen, most crops grown in the U.S. and Europe to make "green" fuel should actually increase global warming. The plants could produce up to 70% more greenhouse gases than conventional diesel, due to the nitrous oxide released by fertilizers.
Remarks Professor Keith Smith, coauthor of Crutzen's report:
As it's used at the moment, bioethanol from maize seems to be a pretty futile exercise.
In other global warming news, environmentalist restrictions on drilling for natural gas are making it difficult for power plants to transition from allegedly polar bear–oppressing coal. According to the National Petroleum Council, an estimated 79 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas is going to waste beneath U.S. waters where drilling is banned, and 69 trillion cubic feet of off-limits gas is held in the Rocky Mountain region.
Attempting to cut greenhouse gas emissions without allowing this natural gas to be extracted will naturally drive up prices, inflicting a burden on all of us. But our economic hardship is a small price for bureaucrats to pay for their trendy green posturing.
On tips from Byron.
