As Texas went dark, Fox News blamed windmills
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The majority of power outages in Texas over the past week came from losses in coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, according to the state's own energy officials. But right-wing media has zeroed in on another, far smaller culprit: wind turbines and solar energy.
"This week showed that the problem of parallel news universes — the problem of alternative realities of information — does not just apply to politics," CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter said on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. "It even applies to the weather." Some on Fox News blamed frozen wind turbines — which make up nearly a quarter of Texas' power — and attacked the Green New Deal when the state's power plants failed. While frozen wind turbines were a contributing factor, wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages, an official from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the state's power grid, told Bloomberg.
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