There are two factors that go into the equation that brought you unprecedented downpours. One is how ethanol is refined from corn in the Midwest where millions of tons of water vapor are evaporated into the atmosphere from distilling corn beer and then drying its waste for cattle feed. This causes the water vapor to be mixed with low level ozone causing pollutants acetaldehyde and nitrogen oxide. The nitrogen oxide is from coal used to power many of the refineries but is already present in the atmosphere from other industries. This causes extremely volatile reactions in the atmosphere, one being tornadoes and the other being torrential rains.
An obvious question to ask is where is all the water vapor from the ethanol refineries going? The answer has to be up into the clouds. So then what happens to all that extra water in the atmosphere? Does it choose to not come back down in larger amounts than usual because ethanol has so much popular political support? It just doesn’t work that way.
If you want to know more about how low level ozone and water vapor effects climate change, look to the science of Drew Shindell of NASA. He was chosen as one of the top 50 scientists in the nation in 2004. He’s testified before congress that his work has been censored by the Bush administration. He claims, which he backs up with hard evidence, that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with the weather pattern changes we’ve been witnessing while being told it’s caused by global warming. He further claims what we’re seeing is regional responses to the effects of low level ozone and it precursors acetaldehyde and nitrogen oxide reacting with atmospheric water vapor in ultraviolet sun rays.
The other factor weighing in on causing chronic Midwest flooding is California’s use of ethanol added to gasoline causing them to have a drought as their regional water vapor is pushed higher than normal into the atmosphere by the same byproduct of ethanol acetaldehyde, only this time from car emissions. It mixes with regional nitrogen oxide while ethanol causes engines to run hotter which increases emissions of nitrous oxide - NOx. NOx is 300 times worse a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
So instead of coming back down in rain in California, their water vapor is carried away by the easterly flowing jet stream and is dumped in the Midwest. This is what happened in 1993, the last time the Midwest was effected this way. But then, the gasoline additive of choice was MTBE which causes emissions of formaldehyde which are like acetaldehyde in causing low level ozone formation.
I would be happy to debate or educate further on any aspect of what I have related to you while supporting my information with resources that are undeniably credible.
I have nothing against the Midwest, corn farmers, or even the ethanol industry if they would look at the facts and react to them responsibly. There are ways to mitigate all the problems with refining and selling ethanol for fuel, even more profitably than it is being done now, just not for Wall Street. Big corporations throwing millions of dollars around Washington, like Enron did to promote MTBE, gets our leaders to turn a blind eye to something most people would find hard to believe even if presented with the facts, which is how pollution mixing with water vapor in the atmosphere causes dramatic changes in weather patterns. This is never going to make ethanol produced from corn a viable option for the future.
Facing reality will only cut out the middleman whose running the ethanol industry now, politicians and big corporate investors who in order to get their cut of the market, have to run it a certain way, the wrong way. So if you’re reading this being inclined to think there’s something to what I’m saying but are afraid to look further into it because of how ethanol is viewed in the Midwest as a well deserved boom to their long awaiting economies, the truth is there’s more money to be made without screwing up food markets, the atmosphere, and the economy by supporting an ethanol program designed and implemented primarily by Archers Daniels Midland and a hand full of Wall Street friendly Midwesterners, who are the only ones walking away from this current ethanol boondoggle with enough money to support themselves after how what’s being done is driving the prices of everything through the roof.
You have a chance to create very fast and positive changes because of the unprecedented floods and tornadoes that have been taking the lives of your citizens while destroying your properties and natural landscapes. The whole world’s eyes are on you. If you reach out now to break this horrid cycle of ignoring reality to earn big profits for Wall Street, you can change everything. But if you sit silent, in a few weeks, or even tomorrow, a new disaster will come along and everyone will forget about you while I will move on to tell them the same Chicken Little story I just told you until someone listens to me.
I hope you are the one who listens and are in a position to start an information campaign in Iowa that will put an end to this tragic waste of time, resources, lives, property, the future, and the list goes on. If not you - who? If you can answer that question, please forward them this email to them.
Thank you for taking the time to consider my proposal
Sincerely
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