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Which Kills More Birds? Oil Spills, or Windmills?
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 06/17/2015 | Kerry Jackson

Posted on 06/18/2015 2:54:11 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Any time there's an oil spill on the water, the media are filled with photos and videos of crude-soaked birds. The coverage is the cue for the self-appointed environmentalist defenders of wildlife to wring their hands and furrow their brows.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


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KEYWORDS: birdkills; birds; energy; oilspills; solarpower; wind; windmills

1 posted on 06/18/2015 2:54:11 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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Yeah, but windmills are pretty and oil is icky.


2 posted on 06/18/2015 3:22:39 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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3 posted on 06/18/2015 3:25:25 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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It’s not even close


4 posted on 06/18/2015 3:25:47 AM PDT by WHBates
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I thought birds were so smart.


5 posted on 06/18/2015 3:32:27 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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Next time one of those conservation groups calls to solicit money, ask them if they support windmills. Everytime I've asked, they've said yes.

I really, really despise hypocrisy.

6 posted on 06/18/2015 3:37:53 AM PDT by grania
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Right up there with fry-em-aloft solar farms.


7 posted on 06/18/2015 3:43:22 AM PDT by glock rocks (My New Year resolution? 1920x1080 as always.)
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8 posted on 06/18/2015 3:45:03 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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I saw on an Audubon site that *Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive*


9 posted on 06/18/2015 3:49:12 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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Doesn’t matter, it’s STILL Bush’s fault, and you’re STILL a racist...


10 posted on 06/18/2015 4:14:15 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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12ga.


11 posted on 06/18/2015 4:36:52 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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12 posted on 06/18/2015 4:47:10 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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I’m guessing that cars kill more than windmills and oil spills combined. Cats kill more than cars. The world would be a terrible place if birds weren’t killed.


13 posted on 06/18/2015 4:51:51 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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(I thought birds were so smart.)

Why would you think that? Does the expression “bird brain” ring a bell?


14 posted on 06/18/2015 4:53:46 AM PDT by winner3000
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Every year, often more than once, a goshawk swoops down and takes a mourning dove at my feeders. I respect those raptors, it’s over in a nanosecond.


15 posted on 06/18/2015 5:06:22 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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16 posted on 06/18/2015 5:09:15 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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Wind turbines do not “chop” up birds. It is worse.

Wind turbine impacts cause internal damage. The birds suffer in pain with internal bleeding, broken wings/legs/bones over a long period of time.

Predators put these suffering birds out of their misery as they have learned turbines are an easy source of helpless food.

Similarly, solar does not “fry” birds to death. Instead, solar cooks them just enough internally to cause organ failure. Again, the bird suffers in pain until, hopefully, a predator eats it. Otherwise, it is a long and agonizing death as organ after organ shut down.


17 posted on 06/18/2015 5:10:32 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Scott Walker - a more conservative governor than Ronald Reagan)
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Hi Daffy,

Attempting to save oil soaked birds is a waste of time and money, but makes a hell of a good fund raiser. Lo, the poor bird ... apologies to A. Pope.

And how many birds (bats and insects) hit by a windmill or cross a solar panel hot spot survive? Any pics of a survivor handy?


18 posted on 06/18/2015 5:23:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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