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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: Kamaji on July 20, 2023, 12:32:38 pm
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Holy Environy: Scotland Cuts Down Forest to Make Room for Windmills
BY VICTORIA TAFT
JULY 20, 2023
Where would you like to begin in counting all the environies in Scotland’s effort to destroy the environment in order to save it?
Scotland has been busily erecting Stonehengian-like multi-story bird terminators — wind turbines — in deferential indulgence to the Green Gods. Now we learn that in addition to killing all manner of birds of prey living in the forests, the independent-minded Scots are killing forests to erect these largest of all virtue signals.
The UK Daily Telegraph reports that nearly “16 million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms, an SNP minister had admitted amid a major drive to erect more turbines.” Now before you go worrying your pretty little head about spotted owls and the barred owls that eat them or whatever creature you fancy, this forest-sized mass of trees has been systematically chopped down for years. Indeed, they’ve been cutting down these trees at a rate of 1,700 per day for the past 23 years. This is into the billions of board feet of timber brought down and used hopefully to good purposes, but it’s the Scottish government so who knows.
https://twitter.com/pdubdev/status/1681740659471036421
So let’s do the back-of-the-envelope math here. They’re chopping down trees, reducing the O2 output of that region, because, unless they’ve replaced the study of photosynthesis with another new sex toy exhibit, most school kids remember that trees and green plants produce oxygen. At the same time, the tree chopping also increases the CO2 output. Trees are CO2 sinks. When the trees are processed or burned in a wildfire, they release the CO2.
Think of it as a car filter. The guy at Hunter’s Lube Shop says he’s done the requisite work but, gee, he says, have you thought about changing out your air filter? You look at the air filter he’s holding in his hand, grab it, shake it, and voila it can endure another 3,000 miles. That filter lint has to go somewhere like a garbage can. The garbage can is the atmosphere in this horrible metaphor.
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Source: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/20/holy-environy-scotland-cuts-down-forest-to-make-room-for-windmills-n1712075
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:facepalm2:
You just cannot make this sh*t up!
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Whatever happened to the squawking about cutting down the South American "rain forests" and how that was going to destroy the planet because there were no trees to produce oxygen? Is it different in Scotland? :whistle:
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Whatever happened to the squawking about cutting down the South American "rain forests" and how that was going to destroy the planet because there were no trees to produce oxygen? Is it different in Scotland? :whistle:
Apparently it is
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Insanity! Pure and simple insanity!
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Insanity! Pure and simple insanity!
Indeed. The global climate loonies are going to destroy this planet.