Study: Biofuels Worse Than Fossil Fuels

Wait a minute! I thought all the details about alternative energy sources were known and settled. How could it be that corn is worse than coal?

From Spiegel Online:

A team of researchers led by Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen has found that growing and using biofuels emits up to 70 percent more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. They are warning that the cure could end up being worse than the disease.

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Crutzen is widely respected in the field of climate research, having received the Nobel Prize in 1995 for his research into the ozone layer. The study, published in the scientific journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, finds that the growth and use of biofuels produced from rapeseed and maize can produce 70 percent and 50 percent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels.

How much you want to bet that the environmental socialists won't pay a lick of attention to what Crutzen reports?