Across North America, the estimated number of migrating birds killed annually in collisions with buildings ranges from 100 million to 1 billion birds. - http://www.flap.org/faqs.php
Somewhere between 0.1 and 0.3 million birds die each year from collisions with wind turbines - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
But the real killer
You should read the paper. Geothermal sources are not thought to have changed over the last 100 (or 100,000) years. They cannot be the cause of recent Antarctic melting. However they could make the collapse come about all that much quicker.
It was recently reported that the west Antarctic ice sheet had hit a tipping point and would collapse completely in about 200 years after about 9000 years of stability. The models used to conclude this would not have taken into account the high geothermal sources under the antarctic. The date of collapse may need to be revised forward taking into account this new data.
So no, I don't think this study upends any existing science. It is just one more data point.
Read the paper instead of making inferences from a summary that is significantly lacking in details.
If you look at the poster's history you would be forgiven for thinking that he intentionally submitted a misleading summary. Story should be tagged "bricko".
We don't have much more than a few data points on Martian temperatures, so it is not really possible to know whether there are any long term warming or cooling trends. Mars has no oceans and only a very thin atmosphere, which means there is very little thermal inertia. This makes Mars more susceptible to large swings in temperature. Orbital eccentricity contributes far greater changes to Martian climate than to that of the Earth because variations in Mars' orbit are five times greater than the Earth. Massive dust storms may also play a big role in changing the energy balance.
The only papers I can find on Venus indicate that it is likely cooling, but again, data points are sparse so it is inconclusive.
One thing is for certain. If they are warming, it is not because of a warming sun. We know this for sure because the sun has been cooling over the last 40 years.
Well, could trust a blog, or check the peer reviewed science?
What are the predictions of climate models, should we believe them, and are they falsifiable? Probably the most iconic and influential result arising from climate models is the prediction that, dependent on the rate of increase of CO2 emissions, global and annual mean temperature will rise by around 2–4C over the 21st century. We argue that this result is indeed credible, as are the supplementary predictions that the land will on average warm by around 50% more than the oceans, high latitudes more than the tropics, and that the hydrological cycle will generally intensify. Beyond these and similar broad statements, however, we presently find little evidence of trustworthy predictions at fine spatial scale and annual to decadal timescale from climate models. -- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
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