Actually this does not surprise me. We in the Climate Change debate world live in an echo chamber, one way or the other, for most people they have little idea of what it is about. I have often said that people are so unaware it would not surprise me if the majority of people think CO2 is carbon monoxide. Obviously this appears to be the case with even the captains of Green Industry.
From Planet Gore
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Hmm. This might sound familiar. A Heritage economist writes in an e-mail:
In an article on the environmental impact of alternative energy, the CEO of [windmill company] Vestas displays amazing ignorance about CO2. He apparently thinks the harm from CO2 emissions is toxicity. You would think the top person at one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines would have the story straight on why humanity desperately needs his product. Ironically, he is adamant about getting "the facts on the table":
Ditlev Engel, president and chief executive of the Danish wind-energy company Vestas, said anecdotal evidence about birds being caught in turbine blades and other environmental horror stories do not usually hold up under scrutiny.
"Do people think it's better all those birds are breathing CO2? I'm not a scientist, but I doubt it," said Engel, whose company is expanding its U.S. manufacturing and distribution operations. "Let's get the facts on the table and not the feelings. The fact is, these are not issues."
Yes. In addition to being pretty humorous, that does seem to represent passion supplanting edification, which is something we see quite a bit from the global-warming industry, including today. One wag has noted in an e-mailed reply that possibly Engel meant "Do people think it's better all those birds are exhaling CO2? This would explain his machinery’s cavalier approach to shredding them into Chicken McNuggets."
At minimum we should expect more sneering from Discover’s blog any moment. Right?
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