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Always be inquisitive about science.  As Will Rogers said, “Everyone is ignorant; just on different subjects.”  Even an individual with a Ph.D. in science does not know everything in science.

The reason why you need to be curious and questioning about science is that there is a lot of false science being generated because of politics.  This false science is backed by billions of dollars in special interests.  Unfortunately, this false science is being spread by television, newspapers and magazines.  It is also spread by those who benefit financially from the false science.  Sadly, many Americans do not question science as to whether it is true or false, thereby making it much easier for false science to control lives and cause the loss of individual freedoms.

Here are some examples of scientific things about which you should be curious.  For a thousand years, scientists have used what is called “the Scientific Method” to solve scientific problems.  The four steps to the scientific method are (1) observe and describe a phenomenon; (2) formulate a hypothesis to explain the phenomenon; (3) use the hypothesis to predict; and (4) perform experimental tests of predictions to obtain reproducible test results.

Question why so-called experts in global warming cannot get to Step (4) which is to obtain reproducible test results.  There simply are no reproducible test results.  Ask others why scientists who advocate anthropogenic (man-made) climate change cannot obtain reproducible test results.

Here is another scientific thing to be curious about.  Energy is measured in British Thermal Units, BTUs.  A gallon of biofuel contains only 61% of the energy in a gallon of gasoline.  Therefore, it takes 1.64 gallons of biofuel to do the same amount of work as one gallon of gasoline.  Burning that amount of biofuel emits about a pound more of carbon dioxide into the air than burning a gallon of gasoline.  Therefore, using so-called “clean” renewable biofuel instead of a gallon of gasoline will emit about a pound more carbon dioxide into the air.  Be curious.  Ask others why anyone would want to use biofuel instead of a gallon of gasoline since it emits about a pound more of carbon dioxide into the air.

This brings up another scientific thing to be curious about.  Since using biofuel emits more carbon dioxide into the air than using gasoline, and since our climate policy is to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the air, our energy policy to switch to biofuels conflicts with our climate policy to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.  Ask others why we have this conflict in scientific policies.

Here is something else to be curious about.  I have asked famous global warming scientists this simple question, and they have been unable to provide a scientific answer.  Why is it that carbon dioxide from carbonated beverages, pets, cattle, farm animals, humans, yeast, dry ice, fireplaces, charcoal grills, campfires, wildfires, alcohol and ethanol is good, and carbon dioxide from fossil fuel is bad?  Ask others to explain why carbon dioxide from fossil fuel is bad.

Here is yet another thing to be curious about.  The United States does not have enough crop land to grow crops for enough biofuel to replace our current oil demand of 15.1 million barrels per day.  In fact, using our entire corn crop land, we can only produce enough ethanol, after 12 more years of increasing ethanol production, to provide 15% of our current oil demand.  Using the size of New Mexico, our 5th largest state, as a measurement, switchgrass would require crop land—which we do not have—2.6 times the size of New Mexico, sugar cane 3.8 times the size of New Mexico, and palm oil 4.6 times the size of New Mexico.  Algae would require a controlled chemical tank 1.5 times the size of New Mexico.  Ask others how renewable biofuel can replace oil when the US simply does not have the crop land to replace more than 15% of current oil demand.

Be curious about science as it relates to increasing taxes, particularly taxes on oil.  All oil wells decline in production.  Each oil well has an economic limit that is the producing rate below which the well will start losing money.  The equation for calculating the economic limit of an oil well contains four parameters, taxes, operating costs, royalty and oil price.  Raising taxes destroys proven oil reserves by raising the economic limit, thereby shortening the life of the well.  Ask others to explain why they would want to increase taxes on oil since doing so would destroy proven oil reserves.

If you get a reasonable and understandable scientific answer to any of the above six scientific questions relating to climate change and “cap and trade,” please let me know immediately.  The public needs to know the answers to all six questions before any decision is made.

Inquire!  From inquiry comes knowledge.  Question anything I have said which you do not fully understand.  I will be glad to explain in much more detail.

Seldon B. Graham, Jr.

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