Letter to the Editor: Climate change?

TO THE EDITOR:

Climate change warnings are getting a lot of press. However, large contradicting facts are not covered.

Ethanol has the highest carbon footprint of all fuels. It takes the equivalent of a gallon and a half of carbon dioxide producing fossil fuel to distill one gallon of ethanol which also produces carbon dioxide. Also, ethanol has only 75% of the energy compared to fossil fuel. However, the government subsidizes ethanol heavily placing production under political control.

China produces more carbon dioxide than any other country and will double carbon emissions in the next ten years. India is close behind. Climate sensitive world governments ignore this and the increased use of carbon dioxide producing fuels by developing nations. Soon over 3 billion more humans will want air conditioning, cars, etc. If carbon dioxide elevation was the climate apocalypse as reported, the world would stop car expansion and enforce worldwide limits for air conditioning etc., etc., etc. Heating limited to 50 degrees and air conditioning set at 90 degrees would be healthy, even in the U.S., and no one would die because of it. Transfer all air travel and air freight to trains and boats. Etc.

Climate change advocate countries praise Brazil's ethanol energy policy. Brazil is clear cutting the rain forest to grow sugar cane for ethanol factories. The fact that the Amazon basin rain forests produce twenty percent of the world's oxygen is ignored. The fact that Brazil is greatly expanding its oil production to get the fuel for ethanol distillation is ignored. The fact that ethanol subsidies are bankrupting Brazil is ignored.

These and many other huge examples counter the claims of imminent climate change catastrophes.

Could it be that the fundamental reason for climate change control is political? Socialism requires that the middle class be convinced that there is a world problem so huge that only a strong central multinational government can minimize, but not eliminate, it. Global climate change fits that role perfectly. There is no question that all climate change concerned countries are morphing to socialism. What is strange is that the mass media fully encourages the move to socialism even though they know, or should know, that under socialism there is no free press.

Robert Jackson

Texarkana, Texas

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