Reply #28: I'm going to presume you are uninformed.

[kristopher]

As I wrote before, these sites you are parroting are a product of the same campaign that is waged against climate science by owners of resources that will be adversely affected by the transition to renewables. Your "health expert" for example, conducted a handful of interviews using a methodology that failed to control for cause and effect. The most logical interpretation of her "results" (which are contradicted by a pretty large number of academic studies that show no such problem) is that people who intensely disliked the turbines were suffering from the stress. This is the same reaction you'd find if someone stressed out because they are opposed to the building of a convenience store across the road.

At this point in timewWind is the primary renewable resource that can replace coal - and the owners of coal and coal generating resources stand to lose huge sums of money. To that end they have started a misinformation campaign that seeks to exacerbate and exploit the fear/dislike of change a normal percentage of people ALWAYS feel when changes are proposed for their area.

The "FACTS" you are trotting out are ALL FALSE. From the health issues to the grid integration issues, they are FALSE.

Here is a short reading list for you. Your "2 hour" self study routine of right wing instigated sites has let you down.


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