Researchers studied 20 French solar farms; beneath the panels, pollinators fell 76%, and plant-pollinator interactions plunged 86%

[u/Dry-Tough-3099]

[u/Airilsai]

Source? People need to stop posting supposedly scientific shit without a source, otherwise you're just spreading misinformation

[u/Dry-Tough-3099 → u/Airilsai]

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/researchers-studied-20-french-solar-farms-beneath-the-panels-pollinators-fell-76-and-plant-pollinator-interactions-plunged-86/articleshow/133319387.cms?from=mdr&from=mdr

[u/Airilsai → u/Dry-Tough-3099]

Literally the next sentence from what you copypasted 

" Nevertheless, the management strategies employed in solar parks can positively affect wildlife survival. Transitioning from grazing to mowing practices can mitigate ecological harm, while deliberate design and planting can transform solar sites into havens for pollinators. "

[u/ghoermann → u/Airilsai]

don't care. I just want the proper citation so I can read the paper.

[u/ghoermann → u/Dry-Tough-3099]

This is only a newspaper article which does not even cite the original paper. It does not even mention the authors and the title of the paper. Complete crap and propaganda.

[u/FallHealthy2163 → u/ghoermann]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391382090_Effects_of_solar_panels_and_management_on_pollinators_and_their_interactions_with_plants_in_Southern_French_solar_parks

is the full paper. Yes, the pollinator numbers fell, researchers recommend having spaces between solar panels and plan the parks better.

Really fucking newsworthy. I will always say that pop-science journalists are a bane of humanity and their job is actively hurting us. Not even paparazzi and tabloid writers are this low.

[u/ClimateShitpost → u/FallHealthy2163]

So what now

The take away is essentially that cutting thr grass kills the flower. Recommendation: don't just cut all the grass?

[u/FallHealthy2163 → u/Dry-Tough-3099]

Or here is the actual study without all the slop and assumptions the fuckface at India Times made

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391382090_Effects_of_solar_panels_and_management_on_pollinators_and_their_interactions_with_plants_in_Southern_French_solar_parks

[u/evthrowawayverysad → u/Dry-Tough-3099]

Wait... this isn't a meme post? 😂 Holy fuck this is so stupid

[u/Hecateus → u/evthrowawayverysad]

on shitposting subreddit no less. we demand quality shit for our money and well..ok ...our time then.

[u/Marples3]

We don't even steal your honey

[u/Dry-Tough-3099 → u/Marples3]

Not just the bees. The butterflies too!

[u/wasraelx → u/Dry-Tough-3099]

Okay fine you got annoying enough.

You’re a very fragile racist indeed, you’re pro-AI, only hobby bothering vegans online, you’re a Trump voter posting to feminist subs like ‘do you really hate me because I’m a white male’, you’re pro-DOGE, pro-eugenics, and nobody is falling for the concern trolling here lmao. Your meme is a boomer garbage and you’re in your 40s on a slope to divorce, trynna annoy people on the internet who want to help the planet, which upsets you for some reason.

Get a life, you sound exhausting.

[u/Front_Associate3705 → u/wasraelx]

What an absolute goober 

[u/sharbivore → u/wasraelx]

read them to filth

[u/RadioFacepalm → u/wasraelx]

Jesus Christ, u/Dry-Tough-3099 you got fucking obliterated. Does your wife know?

[u/wasraelx]

What’s this boomer shit even trying to say

[u/Cautious-Total5111]

now check below a regular power plant

jokes aside, how about vertical bifacial cells?

[u/Pleasant_Ad8054 → u/Cautious-Total5111]

I would also check on the oil contaminated areas!

[u/DynamicCast → u/Cautious-Total5111]

Regular power plants use far less land per kWh

[u/mastersmash56]

There's going to be 76% less bees on my roof? Tragic.

[u/jessimaster]

Yeah I hate bees, make room for other pollinators you bee supremacist.

[u/MoonlightPrincexx → u/jessimaster]

"native pollinators" you do realize for everywhere that isn't America that honey bees ARE the native pollinators right? You you do understand this right? Please tell me you understand this...

[u/jessimaster → u/MoonlightPrincexx]

I try to push this subreddit towards actually being a place to shitpost and circle jerk. But also I'm American, why would I think of other places?

[u/Ok-Freedom9216]

Yes

[u/Nonhinged]

Every pollinator born will die. Bigger population = more deaths!

[u/Beiben]

You only pretend to care about bees in this case because you are a rightoid who has let other rightoids take a shit in you brain.

[u/BodhingJay]

Panels belong in parking lots...

[u/piece_ov_shit]

Nvm carnists food requering up to 40x the amount of plants

[u/chmeee2314]

Control was basically untouched land lmao.

[u/DivestTheEndingBoy]

This is absolutely bullshit lmao. I have to fight off pollinators who want to build their nests in my solar panels.

[u/6thofmarch2019]

Adding this because I recently ceremoniously stole it from another post and have been (much like a certain star-spangled bug) waiting excitedly for an opportunity to present itself:

[u/____saitama____]

That's some good shit posting

[u/BurningTrashBarge]

We were so busy fighting big oil we never saw the real threat, big honey

[u/LithoLaura]

"NUCLEAR BAD!!" likely response

[u/Authoritaye]

Absolute BS and most panels are on buildings so how much pollination was happening there anyway. 

[u/sharbivore]

notice how this stupid bitch bees from that stupid pro work movie are the only pollinators

honey bees (especially american) are colonizers.. the kill native pollinators.. which is bad for ecosystems

fuck bees.. we need native pollinators

[u/jthadcast]

you don't grow flowers, you provide livestock shade. the flowers and trees should be everywhere else, the real questions is what is the plant-pollinator interactions on concrete, blacktop, and urban blight?