Comment

ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution in Schools

198
lawhawk9/16/2014 6:56:52 am PDT

re: #194 Varek Raith

Far fewer - by several orders of magnitude - are killed by wind turbines than by fossil fuel emissions. Fossil fuel emissions and the production of same also results in toxic materials that are released into the biosphere, resulting in potentially fatal exposures.

Subject to some caveats about data collection, wind power is safer than the fossil fuel emissions - especially coal.

According to one estimate, wind power may kill 328,000 birds annually.

Coal by itself kills 7.9 million.

The wind power tallies are from actual studies done. The oil and gas figure is from the BLM and used different methodologies. Coal used still others, but the facts are clear - fossil fuels kill significantly more birds than wind or solar despite the fear-mongers.