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Max Handler retweeted
The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.
I don’t want to hear anything else about the accelerating melting of Arctic sea ice. Predators actually kill far more mammals every year.
I cannot wait to make a chart of What Kills Mammals. I will use it to tell people should stop worrying about melting sea ice, since barely any mammals are at risk from that.
This would be valid argument if there were just a single species of “Bird”. Unfortunately, there are many different bird species with different characteristics and different life-histories. Cats do not kill the species that cause some biologists to worry about turbines.
I did not know there was only one energy type of the future! Silly me. I guess there can only be one.
Max Handler retweeted
Looking forward to breaking out the popcorn for @doctorvive rebuttal. Here are some predictions and prebuttals of what she will do:
There’s something in there that is neither biscuit nor gravy, and the name of the food is clearly trying to hide it. Very unnerving.
Using the word “birds” is unhelpful at best & deliberately misleading at worst. Cats and skyscrapers do not kill the same species that wind turbines do. This is like saying that we don’t have to worry about elephant poachers because cars kill far more mammals each year.
Yep. If you’re authoring or championing a study like this you’ve got to be either mendacious or ignorant. I am hard-pressed to believe that an energy researcher could actually be ignorant of all this, and so I’m left with one conclusion.
Petroleum formation requires anoxic conditions at the seafloor, which requires warm high-latitude ocean water. (Deep water masses are highly oxygenated because they originate as cold surface water that sinks in the Arctic/Antarctic.) Earth doesn’t currently have those conditions.