How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia::Windfarm critics claim projects will harm marine life. Scientists say that’s not backed by credible evidence
The worst part is it’s not just ‘they’ll kill whales, trust us’, it’s that they’ve cited a study in a journal to support their claim - but the journal says they have no record of the study being published or existing in the first place!
Obviously the deep state is suppressing the truth.
This is literally how q anon got started.
It does make you wonder whether someone has cooked the argument up with a language model along the way, and it’s just fabricated a citation as they are wont to do.
I don’t think I’ve seen “wont to do” written out until now. Is that the spelling of wont?
It is indeed!
The definition of wont will help anyone who doesn’t understand: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wont
To be clear, this is not the contraction of “will” and “not.”
Just like my highschool essays!
Heard this argument in NJ from the NIMBYs as well. It killed our offshore wind project, unfortunately.
Giant propellers in the sky kill whales got it, but propellers underwater are fine right? Behind a large cargo ship right?
Makes sense as to why airplanes no longer use propellers as well.
And those underwater propellers makes a lot of noises, reducing the ability of whales to hear mating call.
I was at the coast in the summer, not far from an offshore wind farm, and I didn’t see a single whale in the sky, checkmate libs.
I heard that the invisible vibrations from the turbines spinning makes your dick slightly longer and girthier
It’s true, look at the Dutch
Hey pal, their eyes are up there (like, waaay up there).
That reminds me the pamphlet stating that cows milk would turn when a train passes too close to them.
This commercial had people thinking spaghetti grows on trees.
Reminds me of the prank where Australians tricked foreigners to believe that kangaroos keep their offspring in a fucking pouch.
Australians make up bullshit all the time about their animals though. Look at the platypus (otter with a beak strapped on), quokka (it’s a kids plush toy), and the “drop bear” (not actually a bear but a carnivorous marsupial).
Well you’d have to be fool enough to believe Australia is a real place to begin with.
The BBC did an April Fools day joke along these lines too. Perhaps one is based upon the other.
That so ridiculous it’s funny as hell.
My understanding is any time you have a construction project in a marine environment you can potentially put the local fauna at risk.
The specifics matter, however, and there are ways to mitigate risks.
This reeks of astroturfing. I guarantee you the people behind it do not give a fuck about whales or marine life in general. They’re the same ones spilling crude oil on the great barrier reef.
I would love someone to make a fake campaing of how oil is killing us all… wait
Some people are just fodder for manipulation and to do the bidding of others who only care is their profit.
