Today in Biofuels Opinion: “available observable data…invalidate the hypothesis that humans cause dangerous global warming.”

From Investor’s Business Daily: “Recently we commented on the plight of Dr. Allen Carlin, the EPA senior research analyst at the National Center for Environmental Economics…The EPA had been working on an “endangerment finding” that would say carbon dioxide, rather than being the basis for all life on earth, was a dangerous pollutant…Along came Carlin, who decided to do something unheard of and actually check the empirical data.

“After examining numerous global warming studies, Carlin — who holds a doctorate in economics with an undergraduate degree in physics — said his research showed that “available observable data . . . invalidate the hypothesis” that humans cause dangerous global warming. The EPA has “tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups . . . as being correct without a careful and critical examination.”

“On March 12, Carlin’s director, Al McGartland, forbade him from having “any direct communication” with anyone outside his office about his study. When Carlin persisted, requesting that his study be forwarded to the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which directs the EPA’s climate change program, McGartland replied in an e-mail: “The administrator and the (Obama) administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. . . . I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”

From the Ethanol Report Podcast: “NCGA CEO Rick Tolman says using unproven methods of measuring indirect land use change may result in accomplishing the opposite of what we are trying to do with our energy usage as a nation…Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association says determining the carbon footprint of ethanol is a fairly simple process which shows a benefit to using ethanol over gasoline, until the inexact science of indirect land use change is thrown into the mix.”

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