“Politicians and nonprofit groups have blamed offshore wind turbines for whale deaths, but the science doesn’t support those claims—at all”

“Conducting necropsies on beached whales to pin down a cause of death is made difficult by the animals’ layer of blubber and by the fact that organs can literally cook inside a stranded whale. But it is starkly clear that human activity—in the form of ships that hit whales or fishing gear that wraps around them—is often to blame.”

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    4 months ago

    It’s hardly surprising that a theory advocated by groups that normally don’t give two shits about killing animals turns out to be false.

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      4 months ago

      You mean the guys saying EVs are dirtier than petrol cars don’t know how to science? That seems unlikely