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September 30, 2007
Environmentalist Bureaucrats Are Bad for the Environment
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 30, 2007 10:27 AM
Comments
From an environmentalist's perspective, the primary purpose of biofuels is not to reduce global warming, it's to reduce food availability and induce shortages, as is already happening here in the EUSSR. This will educate the population that luxuries such as not going hungry are a thing of the evil decadent past, and, in due course, to present the public with a choice between transport and food. Once the inevitable public choice of "food" is made, we can all be nicely confined to our Year Zero eco-towns, ploughing the fields and scattering as subsistence farmers, who will, misty-eyed, tell our grandchildren of the days when you could drive to see Auntie in Scotland or even visit other countries in what were known as "aeroplanes".
"This was an 'airport' once," says Old Bob. "Now o' course it's all turnips. Sigh. Whatever, let's get those oxen yoked to the plough. We don't want to starve this winter, do we?"
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at September 30, 2007 10:46 AM
