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Interesting stuff Mark.
It certainly gives the lie to the doctrine that wind farms can " simply be taken down & no harm done " at some point in the future.
However-you're forgetting the "big picture", and "expert opinion" Mark. I've tried to assimilate the received wisdom, & I think it goes something like this :-
*Global Warming has been caused by The Oil Industry/People who don't switch the lights off/people who drive SUVs/Private enterprise/People who don't use buses/people who won't compost properly/most Americans/George Bush particularly/people who make frivolous long-haul flights ( except birders)/-ie-everyone else
*Thou shalt "believe" ( note the quasi-religious wording) in anthropomorphic Global Warming, or be excommunicated.
*Thou shalt not cop out by "believing" ( I think they mean accepting ) Global Warming , but doubting it's cause.
*Global Warming will kill everyone, and everything on the planet very very soon.
*Wind Farms will stop this happening.
*Wind Turbines are clean/white/green/nice.
*No other technology should be discussed, because we only have time to build wind farms.
*Lots of man-made structures kill birds, therefore it's OK for wind turbines to do it.
*Lots of industrial accidents/oil tanker spills etc. etc,pollute the environment therefore it's OK for wind turbines to do it.
*Since Wind Farms will stop all pollution of the atmosphere, any damage they cause to the environment is acceptable.
*People who oppose wind farms fall into one of the following categories-NIMBYS/Cloth heads living in the country/posh gits living in the country/members of the Countryside Alliance/Members of the Conservative Party/Nuclear power executives/stupid people/Noel Edmonds.
All of these people should be locked up-at least until all the Wind Farms have been built.
*The above people are only trying to stop windfarms being built , because they're houses are where the wind farms should be. In general these places are"bare" hillsides/islands a long way away/places in Scotland & Wales/Places which aren't Norfolk or Indonesia.-ie worthless places.
*All of these things have been revealed by "the vast majority of the world's scientists", and so must be right.
Welll I think that's the guts of it....but I'm still learning.
Colin
