A Maize of Deception
Corn is an often medically chastised food. It has been construed as an overly starchy vegetable that contains both sugar and carbohydrates that can elevate glucose levels. For foods, besides directly on the cob or canned, it is used in cereals, snack foods, salad dressings, soft drink sweeteners, chewing gum, peanut butter, hominy grits, taco shells, corn chips, tortillas, corn oil, and other flour products. Specialty corn makes white corn, blue corn, and popcorn.
Further, it is used as a distiller’s dried grain, gluten feed, and meal and high-oil feed corn for cattle, swine, poultry, and fish. Industrial products made from corn include soaps, paints, corks, linoleum, polish, adhesives, rubber substitutes, wallboard, dry-cell batteries, various textile finishings, cosmetic powders, toothpaste, candles, dyes, pharmaceuticals, lubricants, insulation, wallpaper, and other starch-loaded products.
Also, it can be used in fermentation products and byproducts - industrial alcohols, fuel ethanol, recyclable plastics, industrial enzymes, fuel octane enhancers, fuel oxygenates, and solvents
When one drives through the immense Corn Belt of the United States which includes western Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas, one begins to understand the importance of the vegetable. The United States produces 40 percent of the world’s corn supplies and accounts for more than half of the world’s corn exports. The map below shows the vast regions of corn grown in the United States.
While the current administration suggests that engines should be able to accept 15%, corn-based, ethanol, (which is now 10%) amazingly, even Al Gore confessed more than a decade ago that ethanol from corn was a bad idea. In July 2018, I wrote, “After touting the benefits of corn ethanol from the tops of his mansions, Al Gore eventually said it was a bad concept because of the high cost of production, the subsidies given to ethanol producers, and the excessive escalating cost of corn as food. Ethanol also provides much poorer vehicle mileage than gasoline.” During that time, even the heavily biased Axios News admitted that corn was worse for their prejudicial view of climate change than gasoline.
Relative to the Corn Belt, records maintained by Dr., Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville produce a plot showing, “ the 50-year area-averaged temperature trend during 1973-2022 for the 12-state corn belt as observed with the official NOAA homogenized surface temperature product (blue bar) versus the same metric from 36 CMIP6 climate models (red bars, SSP245 emissions scenario, output here). In other words, the climate models records are in red and used by such organizations as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other advocate concerns, while the plot in blue, the first bar to appear, is the actual or real record.
In my article “Climate Models on the Runway”, despite a similar survey in 2007, I illustrate how an additional survey shows 96% of weather stations continue to be corrupted and fail to meet NOAA criteria. Because of the many heat factors, in close proximity to the stations, the resulting climate models constantly run hot.
A recent very detailed audit by Pat Frank, Scientific Staff Emeritus, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California shows just how corrupt the records are because of the failure to repair, maintain, and distance weather stations. This link goes merely to the conclusions of the study, however, you can read all the details here.
All of this increasingly depicts where the purported global warming is actually coming from – the manipulation and exploitation of those determined to deceptively illustrate that man is at the helm of a contrived climate crisis.
