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Nobel Prize winner states: Biofuels may actually increase global warming.

According to an article written by Paul Crutzen (who won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 1995) in British magazine "Chemistry World," biofuels increase global warming and the greenhouse effect. Crutzen's main argument to support this is that the increase of biofuel crops is producing twice as much nitrous oxide (N2O) as before. Nitrous oxide goes then to the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. The amount of N2O produced by these crops is so important that it offsets all benefits obtained from not using fossil fuels. Keith Smith, coautor ... Read more →

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