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NASA says ethanol and MTBE causing global warming

I have been claiming that MTBE caused weather pattern changes since 1999. No one ever listened to me. I said the same about ethanol before it was used because its emission would have the same effect on producing ozone. Still no one listened.

But putting the two news article mentioned below together, it appears that others are very close to saying what I have been saying for many years. I first reached my conclusion from uneducated observations based on my personal reactions to air quality after my health was ruined by MTBE in drinking water while being concerned for my perennial collection that was threatened by drought.

I researched my theory to find that science supported my suspicions. Drew Shindell of NASA has been making this claim for many years although not directing his research at MTBE or ethanol but the same chemicals that they both emit.

The major byproducts of ethanol and MTBE use from exhaust emissions are formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, both carcinogens. Major smog causing pollutant from diesel engines and coal burning is nitrogen oxide, or NO's.

VOC's, Volatile Organic Compounds, and NO's, combine with water vapor in the suns ultraviolet rays where they go through an invisible combustion  process which produces low level ozone. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are both VOC's known as Non Methane VOC's, or NMVOC's. Trees produce Methane VOC's, which interact with water vapor to give us clouds and rain.

In March of 2006, ( read article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11838578/   ) Drew Shindell of NASA, who had just been given the very prestigious award of being amongst the top fifty US scientists by Scientific American, the first NASA scientists to ever receive this award, said his research shows that low level ozone caused by NMVOC's and NO's was causing the arctic to melt quicker

As far as the EPA and Congress have been concerned, they claim that MTBE and ethanol in gasoline produce better air quality where it's hard to find information to support that either of them produce high emissions of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde. But recently a study conducted at Stanford University ( read article at http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=68 ...   ) that was supported by NASA found that ethanol does produce high quantities of both of these NMVOC's, and that they lead to elevated levels of ozone wherever they are used. In fact they even went as far as to admit that formaldehyde and acetaldehyde mixing with nitrogen oxides dissolves smog with the end result being worse air quality.

Combining these two articles spells out that MTBE and ethanol cause weather pattern changes, the same changes we are currently attributing to global warming
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