{"id":282890,"date":"2023-10-11T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282890"},"modified":"2023-10-11T18:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T16:57:46","slug":"leah-stokes-pnas-and-conflicts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282890","title":{"rendered":"Leah Stokes, PNAS, and Conflicts of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Leah Stokes blames White people for opposing wind projects.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Andy May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leah Stokes is the senior author of a new paper in PNAS<\/em>, Prevalence and predictors of wind energy opposition in North America<\/em><\/a>, in which she blames White people for opposing wind projects. She goes on to say that \u201c\u2026wealthier, Whiter communities [opposition] leads to continued pollution in poorer communities, and communities of color.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is evidence that offshore wind projects, or at least the geophysical site surveys required for building them, harm whales<\/a>. The fact that these geophysical surveys can harm whales is well known and regulations prohibit the surveys, but numerous authorizations for surveys<\/a> [waiving the rules] for renewable wind projects have been granted anyway. There is also evidence that wind turbines can harm our health<\/a>, due to the low frequency sounds they produce. Thus, there are good reasons to protest wind turbine development, whether the protestor is White or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stokes claims in her paper that she has \u201cno competing interest.<\/a>\u201d This was accepted by the editor of the paper, Michael Mann. Yet her podcast, \u201cA Matter of Degrees<\/em>,\u201d has received the following donations from organizations that support wind power:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The McKnight Foundation<\/a> supports wind power and moving away from fossil fuels, the same is true of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation<\/a>, Bloomberg Philanthropies<\/a>, and the Schmidt Family Foundation<\/a>. Stokes is also a policy advisor to Evergreen Action<\/a>, and a senior policy counsel to Rewiring America<\/a>, an organization promoting the electrification of the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I asked Google Bard<\/a> recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA connection to the renewable industry is OK and not biased, but to the fossil fuel industry it is. This seems to be bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This forced Google Bard to admit that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBoth the renewable energy industry and the fossil fuel industry have a vested interest in the climate change debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thus, Stokes appears to have a competing interest, that could lead to bias in her paper. Advocates of wind are financially supporting her podcast. According to the PNAS rules, a financial interest may include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2026membership on a standing advisory council or committee, service on the board of directors, public association with the company or its products, \u2026 compensation as a spokesperson, \u2026 or financial support.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Do I need to ask why she left out her competing interests, or why Michael Mann accepted the paper with the \u201cno conflict of interest\u201d statement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Willie Soon and <\/em>Matthew Nisbet<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leah Stokes blames White people for opposing wind projects. From Watts Up With That? By Andy May Leah Stokes is the senior author of a new paper in PNAS, Prevalence and predictors of wind energy opposition in North America, in which she blames White people for opposing wind projects. She goes on to say that \u201c\u2026wealthier, Whiter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":282894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Leah Stokes blames White people for opposing wind projects.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691823528,691818215,691823529,691818332,691823530],"class_list":["post-282890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-leah-stokes","tag-michael-mann","tag-pnas","tag-whales","tag-wind-projects","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1bAK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":300680,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=300680","url_meta":{"origin":282890,"position":0},"title":"Hurricane Category 6?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/08\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0PNAS\u00a0reasoning was that a few Pacific Hurricanes (aka tropical cyclones) have exceeded SF level 5. 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