The letter under was submitted to the editor of the New York Occasions after a latest subscriber-only publication included debunked claims in regards to the environmental impression of bioethanol in a chunk about sustainable aviation gas (SAF).
A Might 2 publication on Sustainable Aviation Gasoline (SAF) would go away readers with the misunderstanding that the environmental advantages of ethanol are topic to debate.
Years of peer-reviewed analysis from the U.S. Division of Vitality’s Argonne Nationwide Lab, the U.S. Division of Agriculture, Environmental Well being and Engineering and different establishments have all concluded that as we speak’s ethanol reduces greenhouse gasoline emissions by almost 50% in comparison with gasoline.
Bogus “science” claiming in any other case doesn’t go the odor check. The analysis by Tyler Lark, cited within the publication, has been debunked and dismissed by the nation’s high local weather scientists, together with these on the U.S. Division of Agriculture, the U.S. Division of Vitality, Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, and College of Illinois-Chicago, amongst others. They uncovered Mr. Lark for making “questionable assumptions,” “double counting” emissions, and utilizing “outdated and inaccurate projections” to assault the local weather advantages of ethanol.
Permitting that very same misinformation for use as a political weapon in opposition to low-carbon aviation fuels can be silly – and a disservice to America’s local weather ambitions.
Submitted to New York Occasions editor Mr. Thomas Feyer on Might 6, 2024.
