Are people really so stupid to think that whales just blindly go wherever and would hurt themselves whacking into a new object out to sea?!?!
Most people interact with content by seeing a brief blurb on social media. The norm on reddit was around 2-2.5% of people would click through the title to the article. Failing to do the very basics - checking to see if the article says what is claimed, and thinking about it critically - is what almost everybody is doing.
I think the idea is that the noise or vibrations from them harm the whales. At least, that’s what someone I know believes.
I think it’s petrochemical bullshit that people don’t really question.
I mean obviously. Ship traffic is several orders of Magnitude worse than some stationary wind farms.
People who believed it probably see no issue with offshore oil rigs, however…
I didnt realize whales could jump that high out of the water to hit the spinning blades. That’s insane!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was the contents of a social media post in a community group that had Professor Quentin Hanich, editor-in-chief of respected scientific journal Marine Policy, trawling through hundreds of academic papers.
Content linking whale deaths off the United States east coast with site surveys for offshore wind turbines regularly appears.
Member for Cunningham in Wollongong, Alison Byrnes, last week echoed concerns about misinformation at a panel hosted by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA).
The federal government said it was aware of financial incentives being offered for negative submissions on the proposed Illawarra zone, as well as reports of people sending multiple responses under fake email addresses.
Professor Brander said swells were formed thousands of kilometres off the coast and, as they travelled across the ocean, through the process of refraction, the waves would simply pass through the turbines en route to shallow water.
Visualisations of a proposed offshore Illawarra wind zone in New South Wales were released by the federal government last month following intense community scrutiny of the project.
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