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Like nuclear. Why the heck would you care about soda fizz and not about the 2.9 billion wind and solar deaths contributing to the 29% loss of the entire countr
by boogies 6y ago
Like nuclear.
Why the heck would you care about soda fizz and not about the 2.9 billion wind and solar deaths contributing to the 29% loss of the entire country’s birds? (Or the endangered species being killed, or the human deaths?)
https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2019/09/23/29-billion-bird-deaths-linked-to-solar-wind-n2553475 https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2019/09/23/29-b...
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI'm all for nuclear, but I'll also acknowledge that solar is a good step forward, even if it (gasp!) kills birds. And that 29% claim is very dishonest of you. That's how much the bird population declined overall, since 1950 (!), and says nothing about how many birds are anually killed by solar, at all. (You've updated your post since, to a statement that again basically says nothing.)
- rossng 6y agoThis is one of the most intellectually dishonest things I have ever read on Hacker News. There is _no_ evidence presented here that wind and solar are responsible for anything more than a negligible fraction of this species loss. It reminds me rather of https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations