Ten years ago, on this day, June 18, 2013 there was a very sparsely attended “National” Wind Power Fraud Rally in Canberra
https://stopthesethings.com/tag/national-wind-power-fraud-rally/
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 398ppm. As of 2023 it is 423ppm, but check here for daily measures.
The context was
The carbon tax battle had been lost. And now the anti-climate anti-Gillard sorts were doing their best to keep the flame alive with an anti wind power rally. But you can’t reheat a souffle. And this one was an embarrassment because people on the whole, like wind power, (especially if they don’t have to have their house immediately underneath a turbine).
What I think we can learn from this
Some technologies catch the public mind and are considered nice and good, and others are not. It’s not entirely fair. And neither is life.
What happened next
The anti-wind turbine people kind of more or less, folded up their tent and switched to other sorts of stuff, but then they could afford to do that because by September of 2013, their guy was in power and he hated the damn things. (See my 2017 paper ‘wind beneath their contempt’)
What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs..