Who do you trust?

In research published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, a team of scientists from Britain, the US and Germany (including a Nobel Prize recipient for work on ozone) are reporting

Measurements of emissions from the burning of biofuels derived from rapeseed and maize have been found to produce more greenhouse gas emissions than they save.

Yea, like rapeseed and maize produce

up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels.

How many of you knew that burning corn-based ethanol actually produces 50 percent more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels?

Perhaps we've jumped the gun a bit in our Al Gore-led march against global warming? Perhaps all those corn-state Senators who turned on the dollar-spigot for their maize-producing states while proposing to further penalize fossil fuels with higher tariffs and taxes were a bit hasty in their initiatives?

The findings illustrated the importance, the researchers said, of ensuring that measures designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions are assessed thoroughly before being hailed as a solution.

Or, could it be that concern for emissions and clean air are in fact secondary to their primary concern for power, wealth and control? Could it be that there are those in our society who would capitalize on fear to build their own power-base?

Just who do you trust to tell the truth? Can you trust what you read in any newspaper? Or what you hear on the radio or see on the TV? Can you trust what you hear from our government? How do we function as a society if we have to always begin from a position of skepticism? Do we even punish those who are purposefully deceptive anymore?