Pure nonsense: Debunking the latest attack on renewable energy

Photo caption: Miraculously, the video at issue did not accuse wind turbines of causing cancer. Photo by Stephan Schulz / picture alliance via Getty Images. Article by John Timmer. Ars Technica – March 1, 2021.

Our editor-in-chief obviously hates me. That’s the only conclusion I could reach after he asked me to watch an abysmal attack video targeting renewable energy—a video produced by a notorious source of right-wing misinformation.

But despite its bizarre mishmash of irrelevancies and misdirection, the video has been widely shared on social media. Perhaps you’ve seen it, or maybe you just to want to be ready when a family member brings it up in an argument. What, if anything, is true in this farrago of bad faith? […]

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